Bill Text: NY S04967 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits the imposition of any surcharge for the installation or use of a tenant-installed appliance where the tenant pays for electric utility service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-16 - referred to housing [S04967 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04967-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4967

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  JACKSON, GOUNARDES, LIU, PARKER -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Housing, Construction and Community Development

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
          relation to surcharges for the installation or use of  certain  appli-
          ances in housing accommodations subject to rent control

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is  amended
     2  by adding a new section 26-416-a to read as follows:
     3    §  26-416-a Surcharges for tenant-installed appliances. The imposition
     4  of any surcharge for the  installation  or  use  of  a  tenant-installed
     5  appliance  is  prohibited  where  the  tenant  pays for electric utility
     6  service.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect  immediately;  provided  that  section
     8  26-416-a of the city rent and rehabilitation law as added by section one
     9  of  this  act  shall remain in full force and effect only as long as the
    10  public emergency requiring the regulation  and  control  of  residential
    11  rents and evictions continues, as provided in subdivision 3 of section 1
    12  of the local emergency housing rent control act.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00611-01-3
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