Eliminates unreasonable fees levied on tenants for reproductions of keys by preventing landlords from charging tenants more than 110% of the actual cost for the reproduction of such keys.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5683--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 10, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary -- recommitted
to the Committee on Judiciary in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to eliminating unrea-
sonable fees levied on tenants for reproductions of keys
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The real property law is amended by adding a new section
2 235-i to read as follows:
3 § 235-i. Unreasonable tenant fees for reproductions of keys. A land-
4 lord shall not charge a tenant a fee for the reproduction of keys to a
5 single dwelling greater than one hundred ten percent of the actual cost
6 of reproduction, provided such limitation shall not apply if a tenant
7 requires the reproduction of keys for a single dwelling more than three
8 times in a calendar year.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11488-02-0
