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

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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-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2258

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 25, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. SIMON, GLICK, TAYLOR, COLTON, GIBBS, McDONOUGH,
          COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing

        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 manager or board of directors of such property. Where a
     8  keyless security device has been authorized, any  installation  of  such
     9  device  including  hardware and software shall be performed by, or under
    10  the supervision of, the owner or operator of the entry system  in  place
    11  in  such  building, including any affected or interconnected intercom or
    12  other security system.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01646-01-3