STATE OF NEW YORK
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9045
IN ASSEMBLY
January 19, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to massage therapist
locations that promote prostitution and/or practice massage therapy
without a license
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The real property law is amended by adding a new section
2 228-a to read as follows:
3 § 228-a. Tenant location used as an unlicensed massage therapy
4 location and/or massage therapy that promotes prostitution. A landlord
5 shall terminate a tenancy and evict a tenant who operates a massage
6 therapist location on the landlord's property within sixty days of
7 notification to the landlord by a city or state agency that such
8 tenant's massage therapist location:
9 1. practices massage therapy without a professional massage therapist
10 license in violation of section six thousand five hundred twelve of the
11 education law; and/or
12 2. promotes prostitution as defined in section 230.15, 230.19, 230.20,
13 230.25, 230.30 or 230.32 of the penal law.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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