Assembly Bill A7582

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires landlords to notify tenants if common areas or amenities in their building will be out of service for more than seven consecutive days

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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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2025-A7582 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Housing
Law Section:
Real Property Law
Laws Affected:
Add §235-k, RP L

2025-A7582 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires landlords to notify tenants if common areas or amenities in their building will be out of service for more than seven consecutive days; provides for a $1,000 civil penalty for violation.

2025-A7582 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7582
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 1, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. TAPIA -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Housing
 
 AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation  to  requiring  land-
   lords to notify tenants if common areas or amenities in their building
   will be out of service for more than seven consecutive days

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The real property law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 235-k to read as follows:
   §  235-K.  DUTY  TO  PROVIDE  NOTICE OF COMMON AREA REPAIRS. 1. IN THE
 EVENT THAT A COMMON AREA OR AMENITY IN A  MULTIPLE  DWELLING,  INCLUDING
 BUT  NOT  LIMITED TO ELEVATORS, LAUNDRY ROOMS, OR BUILDING ENTRANCES, IS
 OUT OF SERVICE FOR MORE THAN SEVEN CONSECUTIVE DAYS, THE LANDLORD  SHALL
 PROVIDE WRITTEN UPDATES TO ALL TENANTS ON A WEEKLY BASIS.
   2.  NOTICES  REQUIRED  UNDER  SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE
 POSTED IN A CONSPICUOUS LOCATION WITHIN THE BUILDING AND DISTRIBUTED VIA
 AT LEAST ONE ADDITIONAL METHOD, INCLUDING  BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO  EMAIL,
 BUILDING MANAGEMENT PORTAL OR TEXT ALERT. EACH SUCH NOTICE SHALL INCLUDE
 BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
   (A)  A  DESCRIPTION OF THE REASON FOR THE COMMON AREA OR AMENITY BEING
 OUT OF SERVICE;
   (B) THE STATUS OF THE REPAIRS OR OTHER REASON FOR SUCH COMMON AREA  OR
 AMENITY BEING OUT OF SERVICE;
   (C) AN ESTIMATED TIMELINE FOR WHEN SUCH COMMON AREA OR AMENITY WILL NO
 LONGER BE OUT OF SERVICE; AND
   (D) CONTACT INFORMATION FOR THE LANDLORD OR THEIR AGENT.
   3.  FAILURE  TO  COMPLY WITH THIS SECTION SHALL CONSTITUTE A VIOLATION
 SUBJECT TO A CIVIL PENALTY OF UP TO ONE THOUSAND  DOLLARS  PER  WEEK  OF
 NON-COMPLIANCE, ENFORCEABLE BY THE RELEVANT MUNICIPAL HOUSING AGENCY.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11247-01-5

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