Bill Text: NY A05252 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires that landlords ensure that any window treatments installed in a residential unit are in proper working order.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to housing [A05252 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A05252-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5252
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 13, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to requiring that
landlords ensure that any window treatments installed in a residential
unit are in proper working order
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 235-b of the real property
2 law are renumbered subdivisions 3 and 4 and a new subdivision 2 is added
3 to read as follows:
4 2. ANY WINDOW COVERING, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, BLINDS, SHADES,
5 VALANCES, OR CURTAINS, INSTALLED BY A LANDLORD SHALL BE PROPERLY
6 INSTALLED AND IN WORKING ORDER ACCORDING TO MANUFACTURER SPECIFICATIONS
7 AND INSTRUCTIONS AND SHALL COMPLY WITH ALL THE SAFETY STANDARDS AND
8 CONDITIONS DELINEATED IN THE TWO THOUSAND TWELVE AMERICAN NATIONAL STAN-
9 DARD FOR SAFETY OF CORDED WINDOW COVERING PRODUCTS. THE FAILURE OF A
10 LANDLORD TO COMPLY WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE
11 DEEMED A BREACH OF THE WARRANTY OF HABITABILITY.
12 S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07795-01-5
