Bill Text: NY A08068 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Eliminates unreasonable fees levied on tenants for reproductions of keys by preventing landlords from charging tenants more than 110% of the actual cost for the reproduction of such keys.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-20 - print number 8068a [A08068 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A08068-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8068--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 31, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CRUZ, ORTIZ, BLAKE, DICKENS, SIMON, GLICK, L. ROSENTHAL, PICHARDO, GOTTFRIED, NIOU -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SAYEGH -- 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 real property law, in relation to eliminating unrea- sonable fees levied on tenants for reproductions of keys The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The real property law is amended by adding a new section 2 235-i to read as follows: 3 § 235-i. Unreasonable tenant fees for reproductions of keys. A land- 4 lord shall not charge a tenant a fee for the reproduction of keys to a 5 single dwelling greater than one hundred ten percent of the actual cost 6 of reproduction, provided such limitation shall not apply if a tenant 7 requires the reproduction of keys for a single dwelling more than three 8 times in a calendar year. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11488-03-0