Bill Text: NY A08513 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting charges or rent increases for the installation of certain air conditioners and other appliances by tenants; prohibits charges, surcharges or rent increases for air conditioners acquired and/or installed by the tenant or for washing machines, dryers, and dishwashers acquired and installed by the tenant; authorizes landlords to charge a one-time de minimis fee for installation of an appliance by him or herself or his or her agent.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to housing [A08513 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08513-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8513

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 7, 2019
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city  of  New  York,  the
          emergency housing rent control law and the emergency tenant protection
          act  of  nineteen  seventy-four, in relation to prohibiting charges or
          rent increases for the installation of certain  air  conditioners  and
          other appliances by tenants

          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 two new sections 26-407.2 and 26-407.3 to read as follows:
     3    §  26-407.2  Air  conditioner  charges  or  rent increases prohibited.
     4  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule, regulation, charter or
     5  administrative code, tenants of housing accommodations which are subject
     6  to rent control under this chapter shall not be subject  to  charges  or
     7  rent  increases  for  air  conditioners acquired and/or installed by the
     8  tenant and any such charge or rent increase  shall  be  null  and  void;
     9  provided,  however,  a landlord may charge a one-time de minimis fee for
    10  installation of such appliance performed by him or herself or his or her
    11  agent.
    12    § 26-407.3 Surcharges or rent increases for certain appliances prohib-
    13  ited. Notwithstanding any other  provision  of  law,  rule,  regulation,
    14  charter  or administrative code, tenants of housing accommodations which
    15  are subject to rent control under this chapter shall not be  subject  to
    16  surcharges or rent increases for washing machines, dryers, and dishwash-
    17  ers  acquired  and/or  installed by the tenant and any such surcharge or
    18  rent increase shall be null and void; provided, however, a landlord  may
    19  charge  a  one-time  de  minimis  fee for installation of such appliance
    20  performed by him or herself or his or her agent.
    21    § 2. Section 26-510 of the administrative code of the city of New York
    22  is amended by adding a new subdivision b-1 to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13489-02-9

        A. 8513                             2

     1    b-1. Notwithstanding any other provision  of  law,  rule,  regulation,
     2  charter  or administrative code, tenants of housing accommodations which
     3  are subject to rent  stabilization  under  this  chapter  shall  not  be
     4  subject  to  (1) charges or rent increases for air conditioners acquired
     5  and/or  installed  by the tenant or (2) surcharges or rent increases for
     6  washing machines, dryers, and dishwashers acquired and/or  installed  by
     7  the  tenant,  and  any  such charge, surcharge or rent increase shall be
     8  null and void; provided, however, a landlord may charge  a  one-time  de
     9  minimis  fee  for  installation  of  such  appliance performed by him or
    10  herself or his or her agent.
    11    § 3. Subdivision 4 of section 4 of chapter 274 of the  laws  of  1946,
    12  constituting  the  emergency  housing  rent  control  law, is amended by
    13  adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
    14    (f) Notwithstanding any other  provision  of  law,  rule,  regulation,
    15  charter  or administrative code, tenants of housing accommodations which
    16  are subject to rent control or rent  stabilization  under  this  chapter
    17  shall not be subject to (i) charges or rent increases for air condition-
    18  ers  acquired  and/or installed by the tenant or (ii) surcharges or rent
    19  increases for washing machines, dryers, and dishwashers acquired  and/or
    20  installed by the tenant, and any such charge, surcharge or rent increase
    21  shall  be null and void; provided, however, a landlord may charge a one-
    22  time de minimis fee for installation of such appliance performed by  him
    23  or herself or his or her agent.
    24    §  4.  Section  4  of  section  4  of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974,
    25  constituting the emergency tenant protection act  of  nineteen  seventy-
    26  four, is amended by adding a new subdivision b-1 to read as follows:
    27    b-1.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision of law, rule, regulation,
    28  charter or administrative code, tenants of housing accommodations  which
    29  are  subject  to  rent  control or rent stabilization under this chapter
    30  shall not be subject to (1) charges or rent increases for air condition-
    31  ers acquired and/or installed by the tenant or (2)  surcharges  or  rent
    32  increases  for washing machines, dryers, and dishwashers acquired and/or
    33  installed by the tenant, and any such charge, surcharge or rent increase
    34  shall be null and void; provided, however, a landlord may charge a  one-
    35  time  de minimis fee for installation of such appliance performed by him
    36  or herself or his or her agent.
    37    § 5. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    38  have become a law; provided, however, that:
    39    (a)  the  addition  of sections 26-407.2 and 26-407.3 to the city rent
    40  and rehabilitation law made by section one of this act shall  remain  in
    41  full force and effect only as long as the public emergency requiring the
    42  regulation  and control of residential rents and evictions continues, as
    43  provided in subdivision 3 of section 1 of the  local  emergency  housing
    44  rent control act; and
    45    (b)  the  amendments to section 26-510 of chapter 4 of title 26 of the
    46  administrative code of the city of New York made by section two of  this
    47  act  shall  expire  on  the  same date as such law expires and shall not
    48  affect the expiration of such law as provided under  section  26-520  of
    49  such law.
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