Provides that no tenant of housing accommodations which are subject to rent control shall be subject to a fuel adjustment or pass-along increase in rent; provides that any such increase to such tenant shall be null and void.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7349
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 25, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. O'DONNELL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to eliminating fuel pass-along charges for occupants of rent
controlled housing accommodations
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 26-407.1 to read as follows:
3 § 26-407.1 Fuel pass-along to tenants under rent control prohibited.
4 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule, regulation, charter or
5 administrative code, tenants of housing accommodations which are subject
6 to rent control under this chapter shall not be subject to a fuel
7 adjustment or pass-along increase in rent and any such increase to such
8 tenant shall be null and void.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next
10 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law; provided that
11 the addition of section 26-407.1 to the city rent and rehabilitation law
12 made by section one of this act shall remain in full force and effect
13 only as long as the public emergency requiring the regulation and
14 control of residential rents and evictions continues, as provided in
15 subdivision 3 of section 1 of the local emergency housing rent control
16 act.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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