File #: Int 1514-2025    Version: * Name: Prohibiting no-pet clauses from leases for unsubsidized units in multiple dwellings.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 12/18/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting no-pet clauses from leases for unsubsidized units in multiple dwellings
Sponsors: Christopher Marte, Lynn C. Schulman, Farah N. Louis
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would prohibit rental lease agreements from including provisions that prohibit tenants from harboring pets whenever the owner of the unit does not receive certain financial assistance from New York City for that unit.
Attachments: 1. Memorandum in Support, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1514, 3. Int. No. 1514, 4. Dedember 18, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda
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12/31/2025*Christopher Marte City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/18/2025*Christopher Marte City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/18/2025*Christopher Marte City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1514

 

By Council Members Marte, Schulman and Louis

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting no-pet clauses from leases for unsubsidized units in multiple dwellings

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

                     Section 1. Article 1 of subchapter 2 of chapter 2 of title 27 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 27-2009.1.1 to read as follows:

§ 27-2009.1.1 No-pet clauses in leases for unsubsidized housing. a. Where the owner of a multiple dwelling unit offered for rent receives no city financial assistance, as such term is defined in subdivision a of section 26-901, neither the owner nor any agent of such owner shall include, enforce, or cause to be enforced a lease provision prohibiting the harboring of a household pet, provided that the harboring of such household pet is not otherwise prohibited by the multiple dwelling law, the housing maintenance code of the city of New York, the health code of the city of New York, or any other applicable law. Any such restriction shall be unenforceable and deemed void.

b. This section shall not be construed to abolish or impair an owner’s existing rights to seek remedies when a household pet causes damage to the subject premise, creates a nuisance, or interferes substantially with the health, safety or welfare of other tenants or occupants of the same or an adjacent building or structure.

c. This section shall not apply to lease agreements entered into prior to July 1, 2026.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

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