Bill Text: NY S01060 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires landlords to ensure rental properties are equipped with utility services prior to renting such properties; requires landlords to keep utility services connected in between tenants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY [S01060 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01060-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1060

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 9, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  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  requiring  land-
          lords  to  ensure rental properties are equipped with utility services
          prior to renting such properties

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

     1    Section 1. Section 235-b of the real property law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4.  The  landlord shall not rent nor lease any property to a tenant or
     4  tenants unless such property is in compliance with the  New  York  state
     5  uniform fire prevention and building code act described in article eigh-
     6  teen  of  the executive law, specifically that utility services are made
     7  available to such dwelling. A landlord's failure  to  be  in  compliance
     8  with such act prior to rental or lease of such property, shall result in
     9  penalties pursuant to sections 145.15 and 145.20 of the penal law.
    10    § 2. The real property law is amended by adding a new section 235-j to
    11  read as follows:
    12    §  235-j.  Duty  of  landlord  to  keep  utility services connected in
    13  between tenants. 1.  A  landlord  shall  participate  in  any  voluntary
    14  program  offered  by  the  utility company that services their rented or
    15  leased property that would revert all utility accounts to the landlord's
    16  name and keep utility services connected in between tenants.
    17    2. This section shall not apply if the utility company in  the  rented
    18  or leased property's area does not offer such a program.
    19    § 3. 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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