Bill Text: NY A00993 | 2013-2014 | 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: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to judiciary [A00993 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A00993-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          993
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, GIBSON, DINOWITZ, MAISEL, SCARBOROUGH,
         JAFFEE,  MILLMAN,  ROBERTS,  HOOPER  -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
         ARROYO, BRAUNSTEIN, BRENNAN, CAMARA, CERETTO, COOK, GLICK,  GOTTFRIED,
         LUPARDO -- read once and referred 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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