Assembly Bill A8131

                             
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                                  8131--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 1, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on  Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- committee discharged,
   bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
   committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to broadband service
   in multi-family housing

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Section 228 of the public service law, as added by chapter
 83 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as follows:
   § 228. Landlord-tenant relationship. 1. No landlord shall  (a)  inter-
 fere  with  the  installation  of cable television facilities OR SERVICE
 PROVIDED BY A RECIPIENT OF THE MUNICIPAL ASSISTANCE  PROGRAM  AS  ESTAB-
 LISHED  BY  SECTION  SIXTEEN-GG  OF THE NEW YORK STATE URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 CORPORATION ACT, AS ADDED BY SECTION 2 OF PART  MMM  OF  CHAPTER  FIFTY-
 EIGHT  OF  THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO upon [his] THEIR property
 or premises, except that a landlord may require:
   (1) that the installation of cable television  facilities  OR  SERVICE
 PROVIDED  BY  A  RECIPIENT OF THE MUNICIPAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AS ESTAB-
 LISHED BY SECTION SIXTEEN-GG OF THE NEW  YORK  STATE  URBAN  DEVELOPMENT
 CORPORATION  ACT,  AS  ADDED  BY SECTION 2 OF PART MMM OF CHAPTER FIFTY-
 EIGHT OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO conform to such  reasonable
 conditions  as  are  necessary  to  protect  the safety, functioning and
 appearance of the premises, and the convenience and well being of  other
 tenants;
   (2)  that the cable television company OR A RECIPIENT OF THE MUNICIPAL
 ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AS ESTABLISHED BY SECTION SIXTEEN-GG OF THE NEW  YORK
 STATE  URBAN  DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ACT, AS ADDED BY SECTION 2 OF PART
 MMM OF CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO or the
 tenant or a combination thereof bear the entire cost  of  the  installa-
 tion, operation or removal of such facilities; and
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11579-02-5
              

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   (3)  that the cable television company OR A RECIPIENT OF THE MUNICIPAL
 ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AS ESTABLISHED BY SECTION SIXTEEN-GG OF THE NEW  YORK
 STATE  URBAN  DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ACT, AS ADDED BY SECTION 2 OF PART
 MMM OF CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO
  agree  to indemnify the landlord for any damage caused by the installa-
 tion, operation or removal of such facilities.
   (b) demand or accept payment from any tenant, in any form, in exchange
 for permitting cable television service OR SERVICE PROVIDED BY A RECIPI-
 ENT OF THE  MUNICIPAL  ASSISTANCE  PROGRAM  AS  ESTABLISHED  BY  SECTION
 SIXTEEN-GG  OF  THE NEW YORK STATE URBAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ACT, AS
 ADDED BY SECTION 2 OF PART MMM OF CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT OF THE LAWS OF TWO
 THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO on or within [his] THEIR property  or  premises,  or
 from  any  cable  television  company  OR  A  RECIPIENT OF THE MUNICIPAL
 ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AS ESTABLISHED BY SECTION SIXTEEN-GG OF THE NEW  YORK
 STATE  URBAN  DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ACT, AS ADDED BY SECTION 2 OF PART
 MMM OF CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO
  in exchange therefor in excess  of  any  amount  which  the  commission
 shall, by regulation, determine to be reasonable; or
   (c)  discriminate  in rental charges or otherwise, between tenants who
 receive cable television service OR SERVICE PROVIDED BY A  RECIPIENT  OF
 THE MUNICIPAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AS ESTABLISHED BY SECTION SIXTEEN-GG OF
 THE  NEW  YORK  STATE  URBAN  DEVELOPMENT  CORPORATION  ACT, AS ADDED BY
 SECTION 2 OF PART MMM OF CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND
 TWENTY-TWO and those who do not.
   2. Rental agreements and leases executed prior to January first, nine-
 teen hundred seventy-three may be enforced notwithstanding this section.
   3. No cable television company OR A RECIPIENT OF THE MUNICIPAL ASSIST-
 ANCE PROGRAM AS ESTABLISHED BY SECTION SIXTEEN-GG OF THE NEW YORK  STATE
 URBAN  DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ACT, AS ADDED BY SECTION 2 OF PART MMM OF
 CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT OF THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO
  may enter into any  agreement  with  the  owners,  lessees  or  persons
 controlling  or  managing buildings served by a cable television company
 OR A RECIPIENT OF THE MUNICIPAL ASSISTANCE  PROGRAM  AS  ESTABLISHED  BY
 SECTION  SIXTEEN-GG  OF THE NEW YORK STATE URBAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
 ACT, AS ADDED BY SECTION 2 OF PART MMM OF  CHAPTER  FIFTY-EIGHT  OF  THE
 LAWS  OF  TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-TWO, or do or permit any act, that would
 have the effect, directly or indirectly of  diminishing  or  interfering
 with existing rights of any tenant or other occupant of such building to
 use  or  avail [himself] THEMSELF of master or individual antenna equip-
 ment.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.