Bill Text: NY S02013 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the imposition of any surcharge for the installation or use of a tenant-installed appliance where the tenant pays for electric utility service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-11 - referred to housing [S02013 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S02013-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2013

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 16, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  JACKSON,  BIAGGI,  GOUNARDES, LIU, PARKER -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
          relation to surcharges for the installation or use of  certain  appli-
          ances in housing accommodations subject to rent control

          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 26-416 to read as follows:
     3    § 26-416 Surcharges for tenant-installed appliances. The imposition of
     4  any  surcharge  for the installation or use of a tenant-installed appli-
     5  ance is prohibited where the tenant pays for electric utility service.
     6    § 2. This act shall take effect  immediately;  provided  that  section
     7  26-416  of  the city rent and rehabilitation law as added by section one
     8  of this act shall remain in full force and effect only as  long  as  the
     9  public  emergency  requiring  the  regulation and control of residential
    10  rents and evictions continues, as provided in subdivision 3 of section 1
    11  of the local emergency housing rent control act.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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