Bill Text: NY A02258 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 2258

Bill Title: Prohibits the installation of certain security devices used to control access to common areas of a residential building without the written permission of the owners, board of managers, board of directors, or authorized party of such property.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-1)

Status: (Passed) 2023-11-17 - approval memo.23 [A02258 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02258-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         2258--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 25, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. SIMON, GLICK, TAYLOR, COLTON, GIBBS, McDONOUGH,
          COOK, DICKENS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted  to  said  committee -- again reported from said committee
          with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to  said
          committee

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting the
          unauthorized  installation of  certain security devices on residential
          buildings

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

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  390-e to read as follows:
     3    § 390-e. Unauthorized installation of certain security devices prohib-
     4  ited.  No  person,  firm,  partnership, association or corporation shall
     5  install any keyless security device used to control and secure access to
     6  the common areas of any residential building without the express written
     7  consent of the owner, board of managers, board of directors, or  author-
     8  ized  party  of  such property. Where a keyless security device has been
     9  authorized, any installation of such device shall be  performed  by,  or
    10  with  the  consent  of,  the owner, property manager, board of managers,
    11  board of directors, or authorized party in place in such building.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01646-04-3