Bill Text: NY S03319 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Prohibits the imposition of any surcharge for the installation or use of a tenant-installed appliance where the tenant pays for electric utility service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S03319 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03319-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          3319
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 5, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
          Community Development
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
          relation to surcharges for the installation or use of  certain  appli-
          ances in housing accommodations subject to rent control
          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 26-416 to read as follows:
     3    § 26-416 Surcharges for tenant-installed appliances. The imposition of
     4  any  surcharge  for the installation or use of a tenant-installed appli-
     5  ance is prohibited where the tenant pays for electric utility service.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect  immediately;  provided  that  section
     7  26-416  of  the city rent and rehabilitation law as added by section one
     8  of this act shall remain in full force and effect only as  long  as  the
     9  public  emergency  requiring  the  regulation and control of residential
    10  rents and evictions continues, as provided in subdivision 3 of section 1
    11  of the local emergency housing rent control act.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00703-01-9
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