Bill Text: NY A07746 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires landlords of rent stabilized housing accommodations to immediately add the names of the tenant's spouse to the lease and any renewals thereof upon request by the tenant.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-04-29 - print number 7746a [A07746 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7746

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 17, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Housing

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
          relation to requiring landlords of rent  stabilized  housing  accommo-
          dations  to immediately add the names of the tenant's spouse and imme-
          diate family members to  the  lease  and  any  renewals  thereof  upon
          request by the tenant

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision c of section 26-511 of the administrative  code
     2  of the city of New York is amended by adding a new paragraph 4-a to read
     3  as follows:
     4    (4-a)  includes  provisions requiring landlords to immediately add the
     5  names of the tenant's spouse and immediate family members to  the  lease
     6  and any renewals thereof upon request by the tenant;
     7    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
     8  ments to section 26-511 of chapter 4 of title 26 of  the  administrative
     9  code  of  the  city  of  New  York made by section one of this act shall
    10  expire on the same date as such law expires and  shall  not  affect  the
    11  expiration of such law as provided under section 26-520 of such law.




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