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. LBD13489-02-9A. 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.