notwithstanding any other provision of law, when a head of the household to whom a then current, valid tax abatement certificate has been issued moves his principal residence from one dwelling unit subject to this section, to the local emergency housing rent control law or to the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four to a subsequent dwelling unit which is subject to the provisions of articles II, IV, V or XI of the private housing finance law and which is located within the same municipal corporation, or which is or was subject to a mortgage insured or initially insured by the federal government pursuant to section two hundred thirteen of the National Housing Act, as amended, and which is located within the same municipal corporation, or which is an applicable battery park city property, the head of the household may apply for a tax abatement certificate relating to the subsequent dwelling unit, subject to any terms and conditions imposed by reason of any fund created under subdivision eight of this section, and such certificate may provide that the head of the household shall be exempt from paying that portion of the maximum rent or legal regulated rent for the subsequent dwelling unit which is the least of the following:
A municipality may create and establish a fund in order to provide for the payments made in accordance with contracts entered into pursuant to this subdivision. There may be paid into such fund (1) all of the rental surcharges collected by the municipality from housing companies organized and existing pursuant to Articles II, IV, V and XI of the private housing finance law and (2) any moneys appropriated or otherwise made available by the municipality for the purpose of such fund.
N.Y. Real Prop. Tax. Law § 467-C