Bill Text: NY A00689 | 2023-2024 | 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 9-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to housing [A00689 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A00689-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 689 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 11, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, L. ROSENTHAL, COOK, BENEDETTO, DAVILA, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, JOYNER, WALKER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing 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-a to read as follows: 3 § 26-416-a Surcharges for tenant-installed appliances. The imposition 4 of any surcharge for the installation or use of a tenant-installed 5 appliance is prohibited where the tenant pays for electric utility 6 service. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that section 8 26-416-a of the city rent and rehabilitation law as added by section one 9 of this act shall remain in full force and effect only as long as the 10 public emergency requiring the regulation and control of residential 11 rents and evictions continues, as provided in subdivision 3 of section 1 12 of the local emergency housing rent control act. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00611-01-3
