Assembly Bill A4494

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to the definition of harassment in the rent stabilization code

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A4494 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง26-511, NYC Ad Cd

2009-A4494 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that within the rent stabilization code the term harassment shall include attempts to interfere with a tenant's employment through direct or indirect contact by the owner with the tenant's employer regarding matters of the tenancy.

2009-A4494 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4494

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 4, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. MAYERSOHN, ESPAILLAT, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored
  by -- M. of A. HOOPER -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
  Housing

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
  relation to defining instances of harassment

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Paragraph  10  of  subdivision c of section 26-511 of the
administrative code of the city of  New  York  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  (10)  specifically  provides that if an owner fails to comply with any
order of the commissioner or  is  found  by  the  commissioner  to  have
harassed a tenant to obtain vacancy of his or her housing accommodation,
he  or she shall, in addition to being subject to any other penalties or
remedies permitted by law, be barred thereafter  from  applying  for  or
collecting  any further rent increase.  THE CODE SHALL DEFINE HARASSMENT
TO INCLUDE ANY ATTEMPT BY THE OWNER TO INTERFERE WITH A TENANT'S EMPLOY-
MENT SITUATION THROUGH DIRECT OR  INDIRECT  CONTACT  WITH  THE  TENANT'S
EMPLOYER  ON  MATTERS REGARDING THE TENANCY. The compliance by the owner
with the order of the commissioner or  the  restoration  of  the  tenant
subject  to  harassment  to the housing accommodation or compliance with
such other remedy as shall be  determined  by  the  commissioner  to  be
appropriate  shall  result  in the prospective elimination of such sanc-
tions;
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately provided however that  the
amendments  to  paragraph  10  of subdivision c of section 26-511 of the
rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine  made  by  section
one  of  this  act shall expire on the same date as such law expires and
shall not affect the expiration of such law as  provided  under  section
26-520 of such law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04397-01-9

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