New York S 3322: Grants tenants right to withhold portion of rent for failure of landlord to provide heat

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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3322
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 20, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. KRUEGER, AVELLA, BAILEY, HOYLMAN, PERKINS, SERRANO,
STAVISKY -- 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 the right of
tenants to withhold rent payments for the landlord's failure to
provide heat
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. Tenant right to withhold rent for failure to provide heat. If
4 any owner of a multiple dwelling responsible for providing heat to the
5 tenants of such dwelling shall fail to provide such service within twen-
6 ty-four hours of a notification by the tenant to the owner, his or her
7 agent, employee or representative, that such tenant is receiving insuf-
8 ficient heat during the months of November through March, the tenant
9 shall have the right to deduct one-tenth of one month's rent from his or
10 her rent payments for each day on which the owner shall have failed to
11 provide heat.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05963-01-7