Add §§26-416.1 & 26-512.1, NYC Ad Cd; amd §6, Emerg Ten Prot Act of 1974; amd §4, Emerg Rent Cont L
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--B
Cal. No. 628
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 -- 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 administrative code of the city of New York, the
emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four and the emer-
gency housing rent control law, in relation to surcharges for the
installation or use of certain appliances 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. Section 26-512 of the administrative code of the city of New York
8 is amended by adding a new subdivision h to read as follows:
9 h. The imposition of any surcharge for the installation or use of a
10 tenant-installed appliance is prohibited where the tenant pays for elec-
11 tric utility service.
12 § 3. Section 6 of section 4 of chapter 576 of the laws of 1974,
13 constituting the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-
14 four, is amended by adding a new subdivision h to read as follows:
15 h. The imposition of any surcharge for the installation or use of a
16 tenant-installed appliance is prohibited where the tenant pays for elec-
17 tric utility service.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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S. 6718--B 2
1 § 4. Subdivision 4 of section 4 of chapter 274 of the laws of 1946,
2 constituting the emergency housing rent control law, is amended by
3 adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
4 (h) The imposition of any surcharge for the installation or use of a
5 tenant-installed appliance is prohibited where the tenant pays for elec-
6 tric utility service.
7 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that section
8 26-416.1 of the city rent and rehabilitation law as added by section one
9 of this act shall remain in full force and effect only as long as the
10 public emergency requiring the regulation and control of residential
11 rents and evictions continues, as provided in subdivision 3 of section 1
12 of the local emergency housing rent control act; and provided, further,
13 that section 26-512 of the administrative code of the city of New York
14 made by section two of this act shall expire on the same date as such
15 section expires and shall not affect the expiration of such law as
16 provided under section 26-520 of such law.
