A11091 Summary:

BILL NOA11091
 
SAME ASSAME AS S03322
 
SPONSORRules (Epstein)
 
COSPNSR
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §235-h, RP L
 
Grants tenants right to withhold one-tenth of one month's rent for each day the owner of a multiple dwelling fails to provide heat during winter months, from November to March, where the landlord is given 24 hours notice of insufficient heat.
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A11091 Actions:

BILL NOA11091
 
06/04/2018referred to housing
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A11091 Committee Votes:

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A11091 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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A11091 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          11091
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      June 4, 2018
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Epstein) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Housing
 
        AN ACT to amend the real property law,  in  relation  to  the  right  of
          tenants  to  withhold  rent  payments  for  the  landlord's failure to
          provide heat
 
          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  235-h to read as follows:
     3    § 235-h. Tenant right to withhold rent for failure to provide heat. If
     4  any owner of a multiple dwelling responsible for providing heat  to  the
     5  tenants of such dwelling shall fail to provide such service within twen-
     6  ty-four  hours  of a notification by the tenant to the owner, his or her
     7  agent, employee or representative, that such tenant is receiving  insuf-
     8  ficient  heat  during  the  months of November through March, the tenant
     9  shall have the right to deduct one-tenth of one month's rent from his or
    10  her rent payments for each day on which the owner shall have  failed  to
    11  provide heat.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05963-01-7
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