STATE OF NEW YORK
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3942--A
Cal. No. 701
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 21, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. SEPULVEDA, SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary --
reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,
retaining its place in the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to allowing tenants
to deduct water payments they make for deficient landlords from their
rent
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 235-a of the real property law, as
2 amended by chapter 713 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. In any case in which a residential tenant shall lawfully make a
5 payment to a utility company pursuant to the provisions of sections
6 thirty-three, thirty-four and one hundred sixteen of the public service
7 law, or to a utility company as defined in subdivision twenty-three of
8 section two of the public service law, public authority, water-works
9 corporation, as defined in subdivision twenty-seven of section two of
10 the public service law, or municipal water system, as prescribed in
11 section eighty-nine-l of the public service law, for water service which
12 a landlord is responsible for but has failed or refused to provide
13 payment therefor, such payment shall be deductible from any future
14 payment of rent.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04833-03-9
