Bill Text: NY A02065 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Eliminates unreasonable fees levied on tenants for reproductions of keys by preventing landlords from charging tenants more than 110% of the actual cost for the reproduction of such keys.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-05-04 - substituted by s3666 [A02065 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02065-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2065

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. CRUZ, DICKENS, GLICK, GOTTFRIED, NIOU, SIMON,
          PICHARDO, L. ROSENTHAL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of  A.  SAYEGH  --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Housing

        AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to eliminating unrea-
          sonable fees levied on tenants for reproductions of keys

          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-i to read as follows:
     3    §  235-i. Unreasonable tenant fees for reproductions of keys.  A land-
     4  lord shall not charge a tenant a fee for the reproduction of keys  to  a
     5  single  dwelling greater than one hundred ten percent of the actual cost
     6  of reproduction, provided such limitation shall not apply  if  a  tenant
     7  requires  the reproduction of keys for a single dwelling more than three
     8  times in a calendar year.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06164-01-1
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