Assembly Bill A992A

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  992--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 7, 2021
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 Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, GOTTFRIED, L. ROSENTHAL, COOK, BENEDET-
   TO  -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing -- recommit-
   ted to the Committee on Housing in accordance with  Assembly  Rule  3,
   sec.  2  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
   amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city  of  New  York,  the
   emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four and the emer-
   gency  housing rent control law, in relation to prohibiting surcharges
   for the installation or use of air conditioner units in housing accom-
   modations subject to rent regulation
 
   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 26-417 to read as follows:
   §  26-417  SURCHARGES  FOR  TENANT-INSTALLED  AIR  CONDITIONER  UNITS;
 PROHIBITED. THE IMPOSITION OF ANY SURCHARGE FOR THE INSTALLATION AND USE
 OF  A  TENANT-INSTALLED  AIR  CONDITIONER  UNIT  IS PROHIBITED WHERE THE
 TENANT PAYS FOR ELECTRIC UTILITY SERVICE.
   § 2. Section 6 of section 4 of  chapter  576  of  the  laws  of  1974,
 constituting  the  emergency  tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-
 four, is amended by adding a new subdivision g to read as follows:
   G. NO OWNER OF A HOUSING ACCOMMODATION SUBJECT TO  THE  PROVISIONS  OF
 THIS  SECTION SHALL IMPOSE ANY SURCHARGE FOR THE INSTALLATION AND USE OF
 A TENANT-INSTALLED AIR CONDITIONER UNIT WHERE THE TENANT PAYS FOR  ELEC-
 TRIC UTILITY SERVICE.
   § 3. Section 26-512 of the administrative code of the city of New York
 is amended by adding a new subdivision f to read as follows:
   F.    NO OWNER OF A HOUSING ACCOMMODATION SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF
 THIS LAW SHALL IMPOSE ANY SURCHARGE FOR THE INSTALLATION AND  USE  OF  A
 TENANT-INSTALLED AIR CONDITIONER UNIT WHERE THE TENANT PAYS FOR ELECTRIC
 UTILITY SERVICE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   §  4.  Subdivision  4 of section 4 of chapter 274 of the laws of 1946,
 constituting the emergency housing  rent  control  law,  is  amended  by
 adding a new paragraph (g) to read as follows:
   (G)  NO  OWNER OF A HOUSING ACCOMMODATION SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF
 THIS LAW SHALL IMPOSE ANY SURCHARGE FOR THE INSTALLATION AND  USE  OF  A
 TENANT-INSTALLED AIR CONDITIONER UNIT WHERE THE TENANT PAYS FOR ELECTRIC
 UTILITY SERVICE.
   §  5.  This  act  shall  take effect immediately; provided that:   (a)
 section 26-417 of the city rent  and  rehabilitation  law  as  added  by
 section  one  of  this act shall remain in full force and effect only as
 long as the public emergency requires  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; and
   (b) the amendments to section 26-512 of chapter 4 of title 26  of  the
 administrative  code  of  the city of New York, made by section three 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.