Bill Text: NY A00449 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the timely cashing of rent checks, requiring a landlord to cash a rent check provided by a tenant in his or her possession within thirty days after the check is postmarked.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to housing [A00449 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00449-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           449
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Housing
        AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to timely cashing  of
          rent checks
          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    § 235-h. Timely cashing of rent check. 1. A landlord shall cash a rent
     4  check  provided  by a tenant in his or her possession within thirty days
     5  after the check is postmarked.
     6    2. Any landlord who violates this section shall be subject to a  civil
     7  penalty of two hundred fifty dollars.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01494-01-9