STATE OF NEW YORK
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4846--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 3, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
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 tenant shall lawfully make a payment to a
5 utility company pursuant to the provisions of sections thirty-three,
6 thirty-four and one hundred sixteen of the public service law, or to a
7 utility company as defined in subdivision twenty-three of section two of
8 the public service law, public authority, water-works corporation, as
9 defined in subdivision twenty-seven of section two of the public service
10 law, or municipal water system, as prescribed in section eighty-nine-l
11 of the public service law, for water service which a landlord is respon-
12 sible for but has failed or refused to provide payment therefor, such
13 payment shall be deductible from any future payment of rent.
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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