Rockland County, NY Rental Property Rules: No-Fault Evictions (2026)

L. No. 3-1989), bars a mobile home park owner or operator from evicting a mobile home owner for any reason outside six enumerated grounds. Those grounds are: rent default after a demand or at least three days' written notice under RPAPL § 735; persistent late payment, presumed when rent arrives more than 10 days late more than four times in any 12 months after the owner has already sent a certified-mail warning; use of the premises as a bawdy house, place of assignation, or for illegal trade; a violation of federal, state or local law detrimental to other residents' safety; a lease or park-rule violation left uncured 10 days after written notice, with a further 30-day vacate notice if it continues, unless the mobile home owner has begun curing it in good faith; or the owner's proposed change of the land's use away from mobile-home lot rentals, which requires at least six months' written notice, or longer if a rental agreement still has more time to run.

The Legislature's own findings, printed in § 302-1, explain why: Rockland has roughly 19 mobile home parks housing several hundred owners who are 'a unique combination of homeowner and tenant' since they own the structure but rent the lot, with a lot vacancy rate under 4%. Section 302-3C routes actual eviction proceedings through Real Property Law § 233(d), and § 302-8 states the article is meant to supersede RPL § 233 wherever the two conflict. A tenant also may not be denied lease renewal so long as he or she has kept to the lease and park rules then in effect (§ 302-3B).