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Assembly Bill A2865A

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires that landlords ensure that any window treatments installed in a residential unit are in proper working order

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2017-A2865 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1867
Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Real Property Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §235-b & 233, RP L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
A5252, S5462

2017-A2865 - Summary

Requires that landlords ensure that any window treatments installed in a residential unit are in proper working order.

2017-A2865 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2865
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2017
                                ___________
 
 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.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD04398-02-7

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2017-A2865A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1867
Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Real Property Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §235-b & 233, RP L
Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
A5252, S5462

2017-A2865A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that landlords ensure that any window treatments installed in a residential unit are in proper working order.

2017-A2865A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  2865--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. McDONALD, ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Housing -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 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.
   § 2. Subdivision m of section 233 of the real property law, as amended
 by chapter 566 of the laws of 1996, is amended to read as follows:
   m.  Warranty  of habitability, maintenance, disruption of services. In
 every written or oral lease or rental agreement entered into by a  manu-
 factured home tenant, the manufactured home park owner or operator shall
 be  deemed to covenant and warrant that the premises so leased or rented
 and the manufactured home if rented and all  areas  used  in  connection
 therewith  in  common  with other manufactured home tenants or residents
 including all roads within the manufactured home park are fit for  human
 habitation  and for the uses reasonably intended by the parties and that
 the occupants of such premises and such  manufactured  homes  if  rented
 shall  not  be  subjected  to  any  conditions which would be dangerous,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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