Bill Text: NY A05694 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits landlords from restricting the installation of appliances or fixtures by tenants; provides that the landlord is not compelled to change utilities for such installation; prohibits surcharge where tenant pays utilities directly to provider.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - ordered to third reading cal.160 [A05694 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A05694-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5694 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 22, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to the installation of appliances or fixtures by tenants The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The real property law is amended by adding a new section 2 226-aa to read as follows: 3 § 226-aa. Installation of appliances or fixtures by tenant. 1. No 4 landlord shall restrict the installation of appliances or fixtures by a 5 residential tenant, so long as the appliances or fixtures are in compli- 6 ance with applicable building codes or other provisions of law and 7 further provided the residential tenant has sought in writing and 8 obtained written consent from the landlord for such installation. The 9 landlord shall respond in writing to a residential tenant's request for 10 such residential tenant to install appliances or fixtures within thirty 11 days of such request. Any denial of a residential tenant's request to 12 install appliances or fixtures shall include the specific reason for 13 such denial and reference the specific applicable building codes or 14 other provisions of law with which such installation is not in compli- 15 ance. 16 2. Nothing in this section shall require a landlord to alter the 17 unit's utilities for the installation of any appliances or fixtures by 18 the residential tenant. 19 3. The imposition of any surcharge for the installation or use of a 20 residential tenant-installed appliance or fixture is prohibited where 21 the residential tenant pays for the applicable utility service directly 22 to the provider. 23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09422-02-3