Bill Text: NY S02012 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to surcharges for the installation or use of air conditioner units in housing accommodations subject to rent control.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-11-21 - SIGNED CHAP.619 [S02012 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S02012-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2012--A Cal. No. 453 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 16, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, BIAGGI, GOUNARDES, LIU -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development -- recommitted to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four and the emer- gency housing rent control law, in relation to prohibiting surcharges for the installation or use of air conditioner units in housing accom- modations subject to rent regulation 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 a new section 26-417 to read as follows: 3 § 26-417 Surcharges for tenant-installed air conditioner units; 4 prohibited. The imposition of any surcharge for the installation and use 5 of a tenant-installed air conditioner unit is prohibited where the 6 tenant pays for electric utility service. 7 § 2. Section 6 of section 4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, 8 constituting the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy- 9 four, is amended by adding a new subdivision g to read as follows: 10 g. No owner of a housing accommodation subject to the provisions of 11 this section shall impose any surcharge for the installation and use of 12 a tenant-installed air conditioner unit where the tenant pays for elec- 13 tric utility service. 14 § 3. Section 26-512 of the administrative code of the city of New York 15 is amended by adding a new subdivision f to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02212-03-2S. 2012--A 2 1 f. No owner of a housing accommodation subject to the provisions of 2 this law shall impose any surcharge for the installation and use of a 3 tenant-installed air conditioner unit where the tenant pays for electric 4 utility service. 5 § 4. Subdivision 4 of section 4 of chapter 274 of the laws of 1946, 6 constituting the emergency housing rent control law, is amended by 7 adding a new paragraph (g) to read as follows: 8 (g) No owner of a housing accommodation subject to the provisions of 9 this law shall impose any surcharge for the installation and use of a 10 tenant-installed air conditioner unit where the tenant pays for electric 11 utility service. 12 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that: (a) 13 section 26-417 of the city rent and rehabilitation law as added by 14 section one of this act shall remain in full force and effect only as 15 long as the public emergency requires the regulation and control of 16 residential rents and evictions continues, as provided in subdivision 3 17 of section 1 of the local emergency housing rent control act; and 18 (b) the amendments to section 26-512 of chapter 4 of title 26 of the 19 administrative code of the city of New York, made by section three of 20 this act shall expire on the same date as such law expires and shall not 21 affect the expiration of such law as provided under section 26-520 of 22 such law.
