Bill Text: NY S07625 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits surcharges on self-installed dishwashers in housing accommodations subject to rent control when the tenant pays for electric utility service.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-07 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S07625 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S07625-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7625 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE August 9, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules 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 dishwashers in housing accommodations 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 26-418 to read as follows: 3 § 26-418 Surcharges for tenant-installed dishwashers; prohibited. The 4 imposition of any surcharge for the installation and use of a tenant-in- 5 stalled dishwasher is prohibited where the tenant pays for electric 6 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 h to read as follows: 10 h. 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 dishwasher where the tenant pays for electric utility 13 service. 14 § 3. Section 26-512 of the administrative code of the city of New York 15 is amended by adding a new subdivision h to read as follows: 16 h. No owner of a housing accommodation subject to the provisions of 17 this law shall impose any surcharge for the installation and use of a 18 tenant-installed dishwasher where the tenant pays for electric utility 19 service. 20 § 4. Subdivision 4 of section 4 of chapter 274 of the laws of 1946, 21 constituting the emergency housing rent control law, is amended by 22 adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10442-01-3S. 7625 2 1 (h) 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 dishwasher where the tenant pays for electric utility 4 service. 5 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that: (a) 6 section 26-418 of the city rent and rehabilitation law as added by 7 section one of this act shall remain in full force and effect only as 8 long as the public emergency requires the regulation and control of 9 residential rents and evictions continues, as provided in subdivision 3 10 of section 1 of the local emergency housing rent control act; and 11 (b) the amendments to section 26-512 of chapter 4 of title 26 of the 12 administrative code of the city of New York, made by section three of 13 this act shall expire on the same date as such law expires and shall not 14 affect the expiration of such law as provided under section 26-520 of 15 such law.