Bill Text: NY A08010 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits a commercial landlord from interfering with the installation of telephone corporation facilities upon his or her property or premises.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-08-24 - signed chap.229 [A08010 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08010-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8010
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 25, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to discrimination in
          franchises and privileges
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  103 to read as follows:
     3    §  103. Landlord-tenant relationship.  1. No landlord shall (a) inter-
     4  fere with the installation of telephone corporation facilities upon  his
     5  or her property or premises, except that a landlord may require:
     6    (1)  that the installation of telephone corporation facilities conform
     7  to such reasonable conditions as are necessary to  protect  the  safety,
     8  functioning  and  appearance  of  the  premises, and the convenience and
     9  well-being of other tenants;
    10    (2) that the telephone corporation or  the  tenant  or  a  combination
    11  thereof  bear  the entire cost of the installation, operation or removal
    12  of such facilities; and
    13    (3) that the telephone corporation agree to indemnify the landlord for
    14  any damage caused by the installation,  operation  or  removal  of  such
    15  facilities;
    16    (b) demand or accept payment from any tenant, in any form, in exchange
    17  for  permitting  telephone  corporation services on or within his or her
    18  property or premises, or from  any  telephone  corporation  in  exchange
    19  therefor  in  excess  of any amount which the commission shall, by regu-
    20  lation, determine to be reasonable; or
    21    (c) discriminate in rental charges or otherwise, between  tenants  who
    22  receive telephone corporation services and those who do not.
    23    2.  No  telephone  corporation  may  enter into any agreement with the
    24  owners, lessees or persons controlling or managing buildings served by a
    25  telephone corporation, or do or permit any  act,  that  would  have  the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11794-01-7
        A. 8010                             2
     1  effect, directly or indirectly of diminishing or interfering with exist-
     2  ing  rights  of  any tenant or other occupant of such building to use or
     3  avail himself or herself of telecommunications services.
     4    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to leases
     5  entered into, modified or renewed on and after such date.