S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5252
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 13, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to requiring that
landlords ensure that any window treatments installed in a residential
unit are in proper working order
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 235-b of the real property
law are renumbered subdivisions 3 and 4 and a new subdivision 2 is added
to read as follows:
2. ANY WINDOW COVERING, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, BLINDS, SHADES,
VALANCES, OR CURTAINS, INSTALLED BY A LANDLORD SHALL BE PROPERLY
INSTALLED AND IN WORKING ORDER ACCORDING TO MANUFACTURER SPECIFICATIONS
AND INSTRUCTIONS AND SHALL COMPLY WITH ALL THE SAFETY STANDARDS AND
CONDITIONS DELINEATED IN THE TWO THOUSAND TWELVE AMERICAN NATIONAL STAN-
DARD FOR SAFETY OF CORDED WINDOW COVERING PRODUCTS. THE FAILURE OF A
LANDLORD TO COMPLY WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE
DEEMED A BREACH OF THE WARRANTY OF HABITABILITY.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07795-01-5