§ 241.00 Harassment of a rent regulated tenant; definition of terms.

As used in this article:

1. "Rent regulated tenant" shall mean a person occupying a housing
accommodation or any lawful successor to the tenancy which is subject to
the regulations and control of residential rents and evictions pursuant
to the emergency housing rent control law, the local emergency housing
rent control act, the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen
seventy-four, the New York city rent and rehabilitation law or the New
York city rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine, and
such person is either a party to a lease or rental agreement for such
housing accommodation, a statutory tenant or a person who lawfully
occupies such housing accommodation with such party to a lease or rental
agreement or with such statutory tenant. The definition of "rent
regulated tenant" as used in this subdivision shall be applicable only
to the provisions of this article and shall not be applicable to any
other provision of law.

2. "Housing accommodations" shall mean housing accommodations which
are subject to the regulations and control of residential rents and
evictions pursuant to the emergency housing rent control law, the local
emergency housing rent control act, the emergency tenant protection act
of nineteen seventy-four, the New York city rent and rehabilitation law
or the New York city rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred
sixty-nine.

3. "Owner" shall mean an owner, lessor, sublessor, assignee, net
lessee, or a proprietary lessee of a housing accommodation in a
structure or premises owned by a cooperative corporation or association,
or an owner of a condominium unit or the sponsor of such cooperative
corporation or association or condominium development, or any other
person or entity receiving or entitled to receive rent for the use or
occupation of any housing accommodation, or an agent of or any person
acting on behalf of any of the foregoing.