Bill Text: NY S06619 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to charges for the installation or use of certain appliances in housing accommodations subject to rent control and rent stabilization; requires landlords to remove extra charges for appliances after the full cost has been recouped through rent payments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-20 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S06619 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S06619-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6619
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 20, 2010
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       Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 and the
         emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, in  relation
         to  charges for the installation or use of certain appliances in hous-
         ing accommodations subject to rent control and rent stabilization
         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 26-513.1 to read as follows:
    3    S 26-513.1 LIMIT PASS-ALONG COST OF  APPLIANCES  IN  LEASES.  WHERE  A
    4  LANDLORD  INCLUDES  A  CHARGE  FOR  ANY  APPLIANCE AS PART OF A TENANT'S
    5  MONTHLY RENT, SUCH AMOUNT MAY ONLY BE CHARGED UNTIL  SUCH  TIME  AND  IN
    6  SUCH  AMOUNT AS TO COVER THE COST OF SUCH APPLIANCE, INCLUDING ANY DOCU-
    7  MENTED INTEREST. WHEN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF THE APPLIANCE, PLUS ANY INTER-
    8  EST AMOUNT INCURRED BY THE LANDLORD FOR THE PURCHASE OF SUCH  APPLIANCE,
    9  HAS  BEEN  PAID  BY THE TENANT, THE LANDLORD SHALL DECREASE THE TENANT'S
   10  RENT BY SUCH ADDITIONAL CHARGE. A LANDLORD SHALL MAINTAIN RECORDS  DOCU-
   11  MENTING ANY AMOUNTS PAID, INCLUDING INTEREST, FOR AN APPLIANCE.
   12    S  2.  Section  6  of  section  4  of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974,
   13  constituting the emergency tenant protection act  of  nineteen  seventy-
   14  four is amended by adding a new subdivision h to read as follows:
   15    H.  NOTWITHSTANDING ANY PROVISION OF THIS ACT TO THE CONTRARY, WHERE A
   16  LANDLORD INCLUDES A CHARGE FOR ANY  APPLIANCE  AS  PART  OF  A  TENANT'S
   17  MONTHLY  RENT,  SUCH  AMOUNT  MAY ONLY BE CHARGED UNTIL SUCH TIME AND IN
   18  SUCH AMOUNT AS TO COVER THE COST OF SUCH APPLIANCE, INCLUDING ANY  DOCU-
   19  MENTED INTEREST. WHEN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF THE APPLIANCE, PLUS ANY INTER-
   20  EST  AMOUNT INCURRED BY THE LANDLORD FOR THE PURCHASE OF SUCH APPLIANCE,
   21  HAS BEEN PAID BY THE TENANT, THE LANDLORD SHALL  DECREASE  THE  TENANT'S
   22  RENT  BY SUCH ADDITIONAL CHARGE. A LANDLORD SHALL MAINTAIN RECORDS DOCU-
   23  MENTING ANY AMOUNTS PAID, INCLUDING INTEREST, FOR AN APPLIANCE.
   24    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately provided section  26-513.1
   25  of the rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine as added by
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03625-01-9
       S. 6619                             2
    1  section  one  of  this  act  shall  expire  on the same date as such law
    2  expires and shall not affect the expiration  of  such  law  as  provided
    3  under  section  26-520 of such law; provided further that the amendments
    4  to  section  4 of the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seven-
    5  ty-four made by section two of this act shall expire on the same date as
    6  such act expires and shall not affect the  expiration  of  such  act  as
    7  provided in section 17 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974, as amended.