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Assembly Bill A5168

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Prohibits fuel pass-along rental adjustment to tenant of New York city rent controlled housing accommodations

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2017-A5168 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3189
Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Add §26-407.1, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A6904
2011-2012: A1839
2013-2014: A343, S3151
2015-2016: A419, A7344, S2826
2019-2020: A289, A7349, S1919

2017-A5168 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that no tenant of housing accommodations which are subject to rent control shall be subject to a fuel adjustment or pass-along increase in rent; provides that any such increase to such tenant shall be null and void.

2017-A5168 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5168
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  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 eliminating fuel pass-along charges for occupants of rent
   controlled housing accommodations

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
 by adding a new section 26-407.1 to read as follows:
   §  26-407.1  FUEL PASS-ALONG TO TENANTS UNDER RENT CONTROL PROHIBITED.
 NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, RULE, REGULATION, CHARTER OR
 ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, TENANTS OF HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS WHICH ARE SUBJECT
 TO RENT CONTROL UNDER THIS CHAPTER  SHALL  NOT  BE  SUBJECT  TO  A  FUEL
 ADJUSTMENT  OR PASS-ALONG INCREASE IN RENT AND ANY SUCH INCREASE TO SUCH
 TENANT SHALL BE NULL AND VOID.
   § 2.   This act shall take effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
 succeeding  the  date on which it shall have become a law; provided that
 the addition of section 26-407.1 to the city rent and rehabilitation law
 made by section one of this act shall remain in full  force  and  effect
 only  as  long  as  the  public  emergency  requiring the regulation and
 control of residential rents and evictions  continues,  as  provided  in
 subdivision  3  of section 1 of the local emergency housing rent control
 act.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08767-01-7

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