STATE OF NEW YORK
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1652
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 16, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Housing
AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to requiring contact
information of landlords to be furnished to tenants
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-h to read as follows:
3 § 235-h. Contact information to be furnished to tenant. Every tenant
4 shall receive at the start of the tenancy a written document containing
5 the most current name, valid phone number, and address able to be used
6 by the tenant to directly contact the landlord and, if the property is
7 owned by a third party such as a limited liability company, the third
8 party that holds the title to the property that is being leased. If any
9 of the contact information furnished becomes inaccurate, a written docu-
10 ment shall be provided to every tenant with the updated contact informa-
11 tion within three days of the acquisition of the new contact informa-
12 tion.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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