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                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 11, 2023
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 Introduced  by M. of A. DINOWITZ, L. ROSENTHAL, COOK, BENEDETTO, DAVILA,
   BICHOTTE HERMELYN, JOYNER, WALKER -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of  A.
   GLICK -- 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 surcharges for the installation or use of  certain  appli-
   ances in housing accommodations subject to rent control
 
   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 26-416-a to read as follows:
   §  26-416-A SURCHARGES FOR TENANT-INSTALLED APPLIANCES. THE IMPOSITION
 OF ANY SURCHARGE FOR THE  INSTALLATION  OR  USE  OF  A  TENANT-INSTALLED
 APPLIANCE  IS  PROHIBITED  WHERE  THE  TENANT  PAYS FOR ELECTRIC UTILITY
 SERVICE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect  immediately;  provided  that  section
 26-416-a 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 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.
                                                            LBD00611-01-3