Bill Text: NY S00528 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the disclosure of bedbug infestation history for the previous year to prospective lessees; does not apply to cities with a population of one million or more; includes co-op sales and co-op and condo rentals in addition to other types of rentals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S00528 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00528-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
       AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to providing prospec-
         tive lessees with the property's bedbug infestation  history  for  the
         previous year
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  The real property law is amended by adding a  new  section
    2  235-h to read as follows:
    3    S  235-H.  NOTICE  OF  BEDBUG  INFESTATION HISTORY. 1. ALL PROSPECTIVE
    4  LESSEES SHALL BE FURNISHED WITH A  NOTICE,  IN  A  FORM  PROMULGATED  OR
    5  APPROVED  BY  THE  STATE DIVISION OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITY RENEWAL, THAT
    6  SETS FORTH THE PROPERTY'S BEDBUG INFESTATION HISTORY  FOR  THE  PREVIOUS
    7  YEAR.
    8    2. INFORMATION SHALL INCLUDE ANY BEDBUG INFESTATION OF THE PREMISES TO
    9  BE  RENTED BY THE PROSPECTIVE TENANT AND THE BUILDING IN WHICH THE PREM-
   10  ISES ARE LOCATED.
   11    3. THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY  TO  CITIES  WITH  A
   12  POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE.
   13    4. THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY TO, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, CO-OP SALES AND
   14  CO-OP AND CONDO RENTALS.
   15    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
   16  have become a law.   Provided, however, that  the  commissioner  of  the
   17  state  division  of  housing  and  community renewal may take any action
   18  necessary for the timely implementation of this act  on  or  before  the
   19  date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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