Bill Text: NY S09227 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires landlords and lessors provide notice to tenants about bed bug infestation within twenty-four hours of having knowledge of such infestation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-06 - SUBSTITUTED BY A9329 [S09227 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09227-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9227

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 7, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- 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 and lessors provide notice to tenants about bed bug infestation

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

     1    Section  1.  The  real property law is amended by adding a new section
     2  235-j to read as follows:
     3    § 235-j. Duty to inform of bed bug infestation. Upon having  knowledge
     4  of  a bed bug infestation, the landlord or lessor of a residential prem-
     5  ises shall provide all tenants and  lessees  on  such  premises  written
     6  notice of such infestation. Such written notice shall be provided to the
     7  tenants  and  lessees within twenty-four hours of the landlord or lessor
     8  having knowledge of the bed bug infestation.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    10  have become a law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13970-01-4