Bill Text: NY S09708 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 9708

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires records of elevator or vertical transportation maintenance, operation issues and repairs be made available to the municipal department having jurisdiction over such elevator or vertical transportation.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-04-02 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S09708 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9708

                    IN SENATE

                                      April 2, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- 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  multiple dwelling law, in relation to requiring
          records of elevator maintenance, operation issues and repairs be  made
          available

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

     1    Section 1. Section 51 of the  multiple  dwelling  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
     3    8.  A  record  of all elevator or vertical transportation maintenance,
     4  operation issues and repairs shall be maintained and kept up to date  by
     5  the  owner  of such multiple dwelling. Such records shall be made avail-
     6  able to the municipal department having jurisdiction over such  elevator
     7  or vertical transportation violations.  Tenants of the multiple dwelling
     8  shall  have  the  opportunity to review such records, and copies of such
     9  records shall be provided upon request.  Copies of such records  may  be
    10  used to prohibit individual apartment improvement increases or temporary
    11  major  capital  improvement  increases  as defined in section eight-a of
    12  chapter two hundred seventy-four of the laws of nineteen hundred  forty-
    13  six, constituting the emergency housing rent control law.
    14    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law.




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