Bill Text: NY S02012 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to surcharges for the installation or use of air conditioner units in housing accommodations subject to rent control.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-11-21 - SIGNED CHAP.619 [S02012 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S02012-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2012--A
            Cal. No. 453

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  JACKSON, BIAGGI, GOUNARDES, LIU -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Housing,  Construction and Community Development -- recommitted to the
          Committee  on  Housing,  Construction  and  Community  Development  in
          accordance  with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from said
          committee, ordered to first and second  report,  ordered  to  a  third
          reading,  passed  by  Senate  and delivered to the Assembly, recalled,
          vote reconsidered, restored to  third  reading,  amended  and  ordered
          reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the administrative code of the city of New York, the
          emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four and the emer-
          gency housing rent control law, in relation to prohibiting  surcharges
          for the installation or use of air conditioner units in housing accom-
          modations subject to rent regulation

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

     1    Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is  amended
     2  by adding a new section 26-417 to read as follows:
     3    §  26-417  Surcharges  for  tenant-installed  air  conditioner  units;
     4  prohibited. The imposition of any surcharge for the installation and use
     5  of a tenant-installed air  conditioner  unit  is  prohibited  where  the
     6  tenant pays for electric utility service.
     7    §  2.  Section  6  of  section  4  of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974,
     8  constituting the emergency tenant protection act  of  nineteen  seventy-
     9  four, is amended by adding a new subdivision g to read as follows:
    10    g.  No  owner  of a housing accommodation subject to the provisions of
    11  this section shall impose any surcharge for the installation and use  of
    12  a  tenant-installed air conditioner unit where the tenant pays for elec-
    13  tric utility service.
    14    § 3. Section 26-512 of the administrative code of the city of New York
    15  is amended by adding a new subdivision f to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    f.  No owner of a housing accommodation subject to the  provisions  of
     2  this  law  shall  impose any surcharge for the installation and use of a
     3  tenant-installed air conditioner unit where the tenant pays for electric
     4  utility service.
     5    §  4.  Subdivision  4 of section 4 of chapter 274 of the laws of 1946,
     6  constituting the emergency housing  rent  control  law,  is  amended  by
     7  adding a new paragraph (g) to read as follows:
     8    (g)  No  owner of a housing accommodation subject to the provisions of
     9  this law shall impose any surcharge for the installation and  use  of  a
    10  tenant-installed air conditioner unit where the tenant pays for electric
    11  utility service.
    12    §  5.  This  act  shall  take effect immediately; provided that:   (a)
    13  section 26-417 of the city rent  and  rehabilitation  law  as  added  by
    14  section  one  of  this act shall remain in full force and effect only as
    15  long as the public emergency requires  the  regulation  and  control  of
    16  residential  rents and evictions continues, as provided in subdivision 3
    17  of section 1 of the local emergency housing rent control act; and
    18    (b) the amendments to section 26-512 of chapter 4 of title 26  of  the
    19  administrative  code  of  the city of New York, made by section three of
    20  this act shall expire on the same date as such law expires and shall not
    21  affect the expiration of such law as provided under  section  26-520  of
    22  such law.