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Assembly Bill A9220

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes the crime of aggravated harassment of a rent regulated tenant; repealer

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2025-A9220 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8559
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §241.05 sub 3, add §241.07, Pen L

2025-A9220 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the crime of aggravated harassment of a rent regulated tenant which occurs when an owner intentionally engages in a systematic ongoing course of conduct to induce two or more rent regulated tenants occupying different housing accommodations in two or more residential buildings to vacate such housing accommodations or if such owner commits the crime of harassment of a rent regulated tenant and was previously convicted of the same crime in the past five years.

2025-A9220 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9220
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             November 3, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LASHER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the aggravated harassment
   of a rent regulated tenant; and repealing certain provisions  of  such
   law relating thereto
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3  of  section  241.05  of  the  penal  law  is
 REPEALED.
   §  2.  The penal law is amended by adding a new section 241.07 to read
 as follows:
 § 241.07 AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT OF A RENT REGULATED TENANT.
   AN OWNER IS GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT OF A RENT REGULATED TENANT
 WHEN:
   1. WITH INTENT TO INDUCE TWO OR MORE RENT REGULATED TENANTS  OCCUPYING
 DIFFERENT HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS IN TWO OR MORE RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS TO
 VACATE  SUCH HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS, SUCH OWNER INTENTIONALLY ENGAGES IN
 A SYSTEMATIC ONGOING COURSE OF CONDUCT THAT:
   (A) IMPAIRS THE HABITABILITY OF SUCH HOUSING ACCOMMODATIONS; OR
   (B) CREATES OR MAINTAINS A CONDITION WHICH  ENDANGERS  THE  SAFETY  OR
 HEALTH OF ONE OR MORE OF THE DWELLINGS' RENT REGULATED TENANTS; OR
   (C) IS REASONABLY LIKELY TO INTERFERE WITH OR DISTURB, AND DOES INTER-
 FERE WITH OR DISTURB, THE COMFORT, REPOSE, PEACE OR QUIET OF ONE OR MORE
 OF  SUCH RENT REGULATED TENANTS IN THEIR USE AND OCCUPANCY OF SUCH HOUS-
 ING ACCOMMODATION INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED  TO,  THE  INTERRUPTION  OR
 DISCONTINUANCE OF ESSENTIAL SERVICES.
   2.  SUCH  OWNER  COMMITS  THE  CRIME OF HARASSMENT OF A RENT REGULATED
 TENANT IN THE FIRST DEGREE AS DEFINED IN SECTION 241.05 OF THIS  ARTICLE
 AND  HAS  PREVIOUSLY  BEEN  CONVICTED WITHIN THE PRECEDING FIVE YEARS OF
 SUCH CRIME.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13983-02-5
 A. 9220                             2

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