Bill Text: NY A02675 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to surcharges for the installation or use of air conditioner units in housing accommodations subject to rent control.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-12 - print number 2675a [A02675 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02675-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2675--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 24, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DINOWITZ, GOTTFRIED, L. ROSENTHAL, PICHARDO,
          CRESPO, COOK, BENEDETTO -- Multi-Sponsored by  --  M.  of  A.  ARROYO,
          DenDEKKER  --  read  once  and referred to the Committee on Housing --
          recommitted to the Committee on Housing in  accordance  with  Assembly
          Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city  of  New  York,  the
          emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four and the emer-
          gency  housing rent control law, in relation to prohibiting surcharges
          for the installation or use of air conditioner units in housing accom-
          modations subject to rent regulation

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

     1    Section  1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
     2  by adding a new section 26-416 to read as follows:
     3    §  26-416  Surcharges  for  tenant-installed  air  conditioner  units;
     4  prohibited. The imposition of any surcharge for the installation and use
     5  of  a  tenant-installed  air  conditioner  unit  is prohibited where the
     6  tenant pays for electric utility service.
     7    § 2. Section 6 of section 4 of  chapter  576  of  the  laws  of  1974,
     8  constituting  the  emergency  tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-
     9  four, is amended by adding a new subdivision g to read as follows:
    10    g. No owner of a housing accommodation subject to  the  provisions  of
    11  this  section shall impose any surcharge for the installation and use of
    12  a tenant-installed air conditioner unit where the tenant pays for  elec-
    13  tric utility service.
    14    § 3. Section 26-512 of the administrative code of the city of New York
    15  is amended by adding a new subdivision f to read as follows:
    16    f.    No owner of a housing accommodation subject to the provisions of
    17  this law shall impose any surcharge for the installation and  use  of  a

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  tenant-installed air conditioner unit where the tenant pays for electric
     2  utility service.
     3    §  4.  Subdivision  4 of section 4 of chapter 274 of the laws of 1946,
     4  constituting the emergency housing  rent  control  law,  is  amended  by
     5  adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
     6    (f)  No  owner of a housing accommodation subject to the provisions of
     7  this law shall impose any surcharge for the installation and  use  of  a
     8  tenant-installed air conditioner unit where the tenant pays for electric
     9  utility service.
    10    §  5.  This  act  shall  take effect immediately; provided that:   (a)
    11  section 26-416 of the city rent  and  rehabilitation  law  as  added  by
    12  section  one  of  this act shall remain in full force and effect only as
    13  long as the public emergency requires  the  regulation  and  control  of
    14  residential  rents and evictions continues, as provided in subdivision 3
    15  of section 1 of the local emergency housing rent control act; and
    16    (b) the amendments to section 26-512 of chapter 4 of title 26  of  the
    17  administrative  code  of  the city of New York, made by section three of
    18  this act shall expire on the same date as such law expires and shall not
    19  affect the expiration of such law as provided under  section  26-520  of
    20  such law.