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Jan 03, 2018 |
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Jan 11, 2017 |
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Senate Bill S1867
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Judiciary Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(D) Senate District
2017-S1867 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A2865
- Current Committee:
- Senate Judiciary
- Law Section:
- Real Property Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §§235-b & 233, RP L
- Versions Introduced in 2015-2016 Legislative Session:
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S5462, A5252
2017-S1867 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S1867 TITLE OF BILL : 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 PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL : This would impose a duty upon all landlords in the state to ensure that any window treatments installed in a residential unit that they own are in proper working order. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS : Section 1 makes failure by a landlord to install any window treatments in compliance with the manufacturers' instructions and to maintain all window treatments in a property which they own a breach of the warranty of habitability. Section 2 amends the Real Property law to ensure that manufactured homes are included in the provisions above. Section 3 provides the effective date. JUSTIFICATION :
2017-S1867 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1867 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 11, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary 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, hazardous or detrimental to their life, health or safety. When any such EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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