Bill Text: NY A09329 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires landlords and lessors provide notice to tenants about bed bug infestation within twenty-four hours of having knowledge of such infestation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-16 - reported [A09329 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09329-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9329

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 29, 2024
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        Introduced  by M. of A. JACKSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Housing

        AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation  to  requiring  land-
          lords and lessors provide notice to tenants about bed bug infestation

          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. Duty to inform of bed bug infestation. Upon having knowledge
     4  of a bed bug infestation, the landlord or lessor of a residential  prem-
     5  ises  shall  provide  all  tenants  and lessees on such premises written
     6  notice of such infestation. Such written notice shall be provided to the
     7  tenants and lessees within twenty-four hours of the landlord  or  lessor
     8  having knowledge of the bed bug infestation.
     9    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13970-01-4