Requires landlords of rent stabilized housing accommodations to immediately add the names of the tenant's spouse to the lease and any renewals thereof upon request by the tenant.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7756--A
IN SENATE
February 14, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. KAVANAGH -- 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 requiring landlords of rent stabilized housing accommo-
dations to immediately add the name of the tenant's spouse to the
lease and any renewals thereof upon request by the tenant
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision c of section 26-511 of the administrative code
2 of the city of New York is amended by adding a new paragraph 4-a to read
3 as follows:
4 (4-a) includes provisions requiring landlords to immediately add the
5 name of the tenant's spouse to the lease and any renewals thereof upon
6 request by the tenant;
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the amend-
8 ments to section 26-511 of chapter 4 of title 26 of the administrative
9 code of the city of New York made by section one of this act shall
10 expire on the same date as such law expires and shall not affect the
11 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.
LBD11060-03-0
