Requires landlords and property managers of public and private multifamily buildings in cities with a population of a million or more to provide notice to tenants on proper protocol for recycling including information on materials that are acceptable; requires the division of sanitation to develop an example notice and make it available on its website for use by landlords and property managers.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8937--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
July 16, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Housing -- recommitted to the Committee on Housing in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to requiring certain landlords and property managers to
provide notice to tenants on proper protocols for recycling
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
2 by adding a new section 16-315.1 to read as follows:
3 § 16-315.1 Recycling protocols; notice. 1. Each landlord or property
4 manager in a city of a million or more of a public or private multi-fa-
5 mily building shall be required to issue to each tenant a notice, annu-
6 ally and upon signing of a new lease and/or renewal lease, to educate
7 tenants about the types of items that are required to be separated from
8 regular trash by state or local law, rule, regulation or ordinance.
9 Each landlord or property manager shall distribute such notice to all
10 tenants via mail or electronic correspondence in a manner they see fit,
11 so that the tenants can easily access and view the notice.
12 2. The notice required by this section shall be developed by the
13 department and shall include, at minimum, information on materials
14 accepted for recycling, including organic waste, proper procedures for
15 separating items, and resources for tenants with questions on what
16 specific materials can be recycled. In addition, the notice shall
17 provide space for each building's owner, or the building owner's desig-
18 nated representative, to advise tenants where to place materials to be
19 recycled within their building or on the premises.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 3. The department shall prepare and make a sample notice available on
2 its website for download and distribution by landlords and property
3 managers pursuant to subdivision one of this section.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
5 it shall have become a law.
