STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2258--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 25, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. SIMON, GLICK, TAYLOR, COLTON, GIBBS, McDONOUGH,
          COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing --  commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting the
          unauthorized installation of  certain security devices on  residential
          buildings

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

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  390-e to read as follows:
     3    § 390-e. Unauthorized installation of certain security devices prohib-
     4  ited. No person, firm, partnership,  association  or  corporation  shall
     5  install any keyless security device used to control and secure access to
     6  the common areas of any residential building without the express written
     7  consent  of  the owner, property manager, board of directors, or author-
     8  ized party of such property. Where a keyless security  device  has  been
     9  authorized,  any  installation  of such device shall be performed by, or
    10  with the consent of, the owner, property manager, board of directors, or
    11  authorized party in place in such building.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




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