Bill Text: NY S05701 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the disclosure of bedbug infestation history for the previous year to prospective lessees; does not apply to cities with a population of one million or more; includes co-op sales and co-op and condo rentals in addition to other types of rentals.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S05701 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05701-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5701

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary

        AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to providing prospec-
          tive lessees with the property's bedbug infestation  history  for  the
          previous year

          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-j to read as follows:
     3    §  235-j.  Notice  of  bedbug  infestation history. 1. All prospective
     4  lessees shall be furnished with a  notice,  in  a  form  promulgated  or
     5  approved  by  the  state division of housing and community renewal, that
     6  sets forth the property's bedbug infestation history  for  the  previous
     7  year.
     8    2. Information shall include any bedbug infestation of the premises to
     9  be  rented by the prospective tenant and the building in which the prem-
    10  ises are located.
    11    3. The provisions of this section shall not apply  to  cities  with  a
    12  population of one million or more.
    13    4. This section shall apply to, but not be limited to, co-op sales and
    14  co-op and condo rentals.
    15    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law.  Effective immediately, the commissioner of the state
    17  division of housing and community renewal may take any action  necessary
    18  for the timely implementation of this act on or before the date on which
    19  it shall have become a law.


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