Assembly Bill A1853

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires a landlord to have clean hands to bring action for rent or eviction in certain cases

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A1853 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6769
Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Real Property Actions and Proceedings Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§711 & 741, RPAP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A192, A4545
2011-2012: A1612
2013-2014: A505, S5438
2015-2016: A604, S593
2017-2018: A3212, S3646
2019-2020: A2036, S4788
2021-2022: A490, S5278

2023-A1853 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to conditions precedent to the bringing of certain actions or proceedings.

2023-A1853 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1853
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, DINOWITZ -- Multi-Sponsored by --
   M. of A.  COLTON, GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee  on
   Housing
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  real  property  actions and proceedings law, in
   relation to conditions precedent to the bringing of certain actions or
   proceedings

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 711 of the real property actions
 and proceedings law, as amended by section 12 of part M of chapter 36 of
 the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   2. The tenant has defaulted in the payment of rent,  pursuant  to  the
 agreement under which the premises are held, and a written demand of the
 rent has been made with at least fourteen days' notice requiring, in the
 alternative, the payment of the rent, or the possession of the premises,
 has  been served upon him as prescribed in section seven hundred thirty-
 five of this article, AND AT THE TIME OF COMMENCEMENT OF THE  PROCEEDING
 THERE  ARE  NO  VIOLATIONS  OF ANY APPLICABLE STATE, CITY OR LOCAL CODES
 RELATING TO HOUSING MAINTENANCE OR HOUSING STANDARDS, AND NO  CONDITIONS
 THAT  CONTRAVENE  SECTION TWO HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE-B OF THE REAL PROPERTY
 LAW, IN THE SUBJECT APARTMENT OR IN THE  COMMON  AREAS  OF  THE  SUBJECT
 BUILDING,  AND THERE IS NO LACK OF HEAT, RUNNING WATER, LIGHT, ELECTRIC-
 ITY OR OF ADEQUATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL  FACILITIES,  OR  AN  INFESTATION  BY
 RODENTS,  OR  ANY  OTHER  CONDITION DANGEROUS TO LIFE, HEALTH OR SAFETY,
 WHICH HAS EXISTED FOR FIVE DAYS, OR ANY COMBINATION OF  SUCH  CONDITIONS
 IN  ANY  APARTMENTS  IN  THE  SUBJECT BUILDING. IF AT THE TIME OF FILING
 THERE EXIST VIOLATIONS OF ANY APPLICABLE STATE, CITY OR  LOCAL  BUILDING
 OR  HOUSING  CODES  WITH  RESPECT TO THE SUBJECT APARTMENT OR THE COMMON
 AREAS OF THE SUBJECT BUILDING OR THERE  IS  NO  LACK  OF  HEAT,  RUNNING
 WATER,  LIGHT, ELECTRICITY OR OF ADEQUATE SEWAGE DISPOSAL FACILITIES, OR
 AN INFESTATION BY RODENTS, OR ANY OTHER  CONDITION  DANGEROUS  TO  LIFE,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06679-01-3
              

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