1.   And it is likely to call for restrictions on the rights of tenants to pass on regulated apartments to relatives or domestic partners after they move out or die.

2.   He would also scale back laws governing what is known as succession, which allow tenants to pass regulated apartments on to relatives or domestic partners.

3.   High-rise conversions, new construction and rehabilitation have added to the stock, keeping the total number of regulated apartments in rental buildings fairly stable.

4.   If rent regulations were to expire, tax laws would have to be amended to cover those formerly regulated apartments.

5.   In years past, the New York City Rent Guidelines Board, and corresponding agencies in the suburban counties, set the allowable rent increases for regulated apartments.

6.   It compared the rents of regulated apartments with the rents on similar market-rate units in the same neighborhoods.

7.   Pataki now claims that under this new system three-quarters of all regulated apartments will reach market rate the first time they are vacated.

8.   Tenants are not entitled to a regulated apartment unless it is their primary residence.

9.   The negotiators have been focusing their discussions on ways of allowing landlords to bring rents closer to market levels on regulated apartments that become vacant.

10.   Under current rules, blood relatives, in-laws and domestic partners can inherit regulated apartments once their current tenants move away or die.