Bill Text: NY A05252 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires that landlords ensure that any window treatments installed in a residential unit are in proper working order.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to housing [A05252 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A05252-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5252 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 13, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Housing AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to requiring that landlords ensure that any window treatments installed in a residential unit are in proper working order THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 235-b of the real property 2 law are renumbered subdivisions 3 and 4 and a new subdivision 2 is added 3 to read as follows: 4 2. ANY WINDOW COVERING, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, BLINDS, SHADES, 5 VALANCES, OR CURTAINS, INSTALLED BY A LANDLORD SHALL BE PROPERLY 6 INSTALLED AND IN WORKING ORDER ACCORDING TO MANUFACTURER SPECIFICATIONS 7 AND INSTRUCTIONS AND SHALL COMPLY WITH ALL THE SAFETY STANDARDS AND 8 CONDITIONS DELINEATED IN THE TWO THOUSAND TWELVE AMERICAN NATIONAL STAN- 9 DARD FOR SAFETY OF CORDED WINDOW COVERING PRODUCTS. THE FAILURE OF A 10 LANDLORD TO COMPLY WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE 11 DEEMED A BREACH OF THE WARRANTY OF HABITABILITY. 12 S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07795-01-5