Requires the disclosure of bedbug infestation history for the previous year to prospective lessees; does not apply to cities with a population of one million or more; includes co-op sales and co-op and condo rentals in addition to other types of rentals.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5701
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 13, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to providing prospec-
tive lessees with the property's bedbug infestation history for the
previous year
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-j to read as follows:
3 § 235-j. Notice of bedbug infestation history. 1. All prospective
4 lessees shall be furnished with a notice, in a form promulgated or
5 approved by the state division of housing and community renewal, that
6 sets forth the property's bedbug infestation history for the previous
7 year.
8 2. Information shall include any bedbug infestation of the premises to
9 be rented by the prospective tenant and the building in which the prem-
10 ises are located.
11 3. The provisions of this section shall not apply to cities with a
12 population of one million or more.
13 4. This section shall apply to, but not be limited to, co-op sales and
14 co-op and condo rentals.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
16 have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of the state
17 division of housing and community renewal may take any action necessary
18 for the timely implementation of this act on or before the date on which
19 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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