Bill Text: NY S01042 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires leases in cities with a population of one million or more to contain a rider describing the rights and duties with regards to such city's housing part of civil court; directs the office of court administration to conduct a public information program informing tenants of their rights and of the right to utilize the housing of the civil court.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S01042 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01042-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1042
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    January 8, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  MONTGOMERY  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
         when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
       AN ACT to amend the real property law, in  relation  to  notice  of  the
         rights and duties of owners and tenants in cities with a population of
         one million or more
         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  235-h to read as follows:
    3    S 235-H. RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF OWNERS AND TENANTS.  1. IN CITIES WITH A
    4  POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, EACH OWNER  OF RESIDENTIAL REAL PROP-
    5  ERTY  SHALL  FURNISH  TO  EACH  TENANT SIGNING A NEW OR RENEWAL LEASE, A
    6  RIDER DESCRIBING THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF  OWNERS  AND  TENANTS  IN  THE
    7  HOUSING  PART  OF  THE  CIVIL COURT IN SUCH CITY. SUCH PUBLICATION SHALL
    8  CONFORM TO THE INTENT OF SECTION 5-702 OF THE  GENERAL  OBLIGATIONS  LAW
    9  AND SHALL BE ATTACHED AS AN ADDENDUM TO THE LEASE. UPON THE FACE OF EACH
   10  LEASE,  IN  BOLD  PRINT,  SHALL APPEAR THE FOLLOWING:  "ATTACHED TO THIS
   11  LEASE ARE THE PERTINENT RULES  AND  REGULATIONS  GOVERNING  TENANTS  AND
   12  LANDLORDS' RIGHTS WITH REGARDS TO THE HOUSING PART OF THE CIVIL COURT".
   13    2.  THE  RIDER  SHALL  BE IN A FORM PROMULGATED BY THE OFFICE OF COURT
   14  ADMINISTRATION IN LARGER TYPE THAN THE LEASE AND SHALL  BE  UTILIZED  AS
   15  PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.
   16    3.  THE  OFFICE  OF COURT ADMINISTRATION SHALL PREPARE AND IMPLEMENT A
   17  PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN, USING THE  WRITTEN  MEDIA,  RADIO  AND  TELE-
   18  VISION,  THE PURPOSE OF WHICH SHALL BE TO INFORM TENANTS OF ALL OF THEIR
   19  RIGHTS AS TENANTS, AND OF THE AVAILABILITY OF THE HOUSING PART  OF  SUCH
   20  CITY'S CIVIL COURT SHOULD THEY BE AGGRIEVED.
   21    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
   22  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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