STATE OF NEW YORK
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3190--A
Cal. No. 287
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER, MOSLEY, BARRON -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Housing -- reported and referred to the Committee
on Codes -- advanced to a third reading, passed by Assembly and deliv-
ered to the Senate, recalled from the Senate, vote reconsidered, bill
amended, ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third
reading
AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to allowing tenants
to deduct water payments they make for deficient landlords from their
rent
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 235-a of the real property law, as
2 amended by chapter 713 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. In any case in which a residential tenant shall lawfully make a
5 payment to a utility company pursuant to the provisions of sections
6 thirty-three, thirty-four and one hundred sixteen of the public service
7 law, or to a utility company as defined in subdivision twenty-three of
8 section two of the public service law, public authority, water-works
9 corporation, as defined in subdivision twenty-seven of section two of
10 the public service law, or municipal water system, as prescribed in
11 section eighty-nine-l of the public service law, for water service which
12 a landlord is responsible for but has failed or refused to provide
13 payment therefor, such payment shall be deductible from any future
14 payment of rent.
15 § 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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