Bill Text: NY A03190 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to allowing a residential tenant to deduct water payments he or she makes for a deficient landlord from his or her rent.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-08-24 - signed chap.143 [A03190 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3190
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 28, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. HUNTER, MOSLEY -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Housing
        AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to  allowing  tenants
          to  deduct water payments they make for deficient landlords from their
          rent
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 235-a of the real property law, as
     2  amended  by  chapter  713  of  the  laws  of 1981, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. In any case in which a tenant shall lawfully make a  payment  to  a
     5  utility  company  pursuant  to  the provisions of sections thirty-three,
     6  thirty-four and one hundred sixteen of the public service law, or  to  a
     7  utility company as defined in subdivision twenty-three of section two of
     8  the  public  service  law, public authority, water-works corporation, as
     9  defined in subdivision twenty-seven of section two of the public service
    10  law, or municipal water system, as prescribed in  section  eighty-nine-l
    11  of the public service law, for water service which a landlord is respon-
    12  sible  for  but  has failed or refused to provide payment therefor, such
    13  payment shall be deductible from any future payment of rent.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04833-01-9