Prohibits the imposition of any surcharge for the installation or use of a tenant-installed appliance where the tenant pays for electric utility service, under rent control, and rent stabilization laws.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6718--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 20, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, GOUNARDES, LIU, PARKER -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Housing, Construction and Community Development -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to surcharges for the installation or use of certain appli-
ances in housing accommodations subject to rent control or rent
stabilization
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 26-416.1 to read as follows:
3 § 26-416.1 Surcharges for tenant-installed appliances. The imposition
4 of any surcharge for the installation or use of a tenant-installed
5 appliance is prohibited where the tenant pays for electric utility
6 service.
7 § 2. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended by
8 adding a new section 26-512.1 to read as follows:
9 § 26-512.1 Surcharges for tenant-installed appliances. The imposition
10 of any surcharge for the installation or use of a tenant-installed
11 appliance is prohibited where the tenant pays for electric utility
12 service.
13 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that section
14 26-416.1 of the city rent and rehabilitation law as added by section one
15 of this act shall remain in full force and effect only as long as the
16 public emergency requiring the regulation and control of residential
17 rents and evictions continues, as provided in subdivision 3 of section 1
18 of the local emergency housing rent control act; and provided, further,
19 that section 26-512.1 of chapter 4 of title 26 of the administrative
20 code of the city of New York, as added by section two of this act, shall
21 expire on the same date as such law expires and shall not affect the
22 expiration of such law as provided under section 26-520 of such law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00898-03-5
