(iii) Recipients of senior citizen rent increase exemptions (SCRIE) or disability rent increase exemptions (DRIE). For a tenant who on the date of the conversion is receiving a SCRIE or DRIE authorized by section 26-509 of the Rent Stabilization Law of 1969, the rent is not reduced and the cost of electricity remains included in the rent, although the owner is permitted to install any equipment in such tenant's housing accommodation as is required for effectuation of electrical conversion pursuant to this paragraph.
(a) After the conversion, upon the vacancy of the tenant, the owner, without making application to DHCR, is required to reduce the legal regulated rent for the housing accommodation in accordance with the schedule of rent reductions set forth in Operational Bulletin 2003-1, and thereafter any subsequent tenant is responsible for the cost of his or her consumption of electricity, and for the legal rent as reduced, including any applicable major capital improvement rent increase based upon the cost of work done to effectuate the electrical conversion.