Bill Text: NY A02003 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires owners to provide prospective lessees with notification where lead-based paint or lead contaminated dust has been found and any and all abatement measures that have been taken in the rental unit.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to housing [A02003 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02003-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2003

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, DINOWITZ, BENEDETTO, PERRY, COLTON
          -- 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 requiring  owners  to  provide  prospective  lessees  with
          notification where lead-based paint or lead contaminated dust has been
          found  in  the  dwelling  and any and all abatement measures that have
          been taken

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.   Subdivision f of section 27-2056.4 of the administrative
     2  code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 1 of the city
     3  of New York for the year 2004, is amended to read as follows:
     4    f. The owner shall inform the occupant in writing of the results of an
     5  investigation undertaken pursuant to this section and  shall  provide  a
     6  copy  of  any such report received or generated by an investigation. The
     7  owner shall retain a copy of each investigation report,  for  ten  years
     8  from  the date of such report and such report shall be made available to
     9  the department on request and shall be transferred by the owner  to  the
    10  owner's  successor in title. The owner shall provide to an occupant of a
    11  dwelling unit at the signing of a lease, including a lease  renewal,  if
    12  any, or upon any agreement to lease, or at the commencement of occupancy
    13  if  there is no lease and to prospective lessees the most recent results
    14  of an investigation undertaken pursuant to this section and any and  all
    15  abatement  measures taken as required by this section where the presence
    16  of lead-based paint or lead-contaminated dust was found.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    18  it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00931-01-1