File #:

Int 0526-2014    Version: *

Name:

Requiring multiple dwelling owners to provide notice to their tenants prior to temporarily or permanently making building amenities unavailable.

Type:

Introduction

Status:

Filed (End of Session)

Committee:

Committee on Housing and Buildings

On agenda:

10/22/2014

Enactment date:

Law number:

Title:

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring multiple dwelling owners to provide notice to their tenants prior to temporarily or permanently making building amenities unavailable.

Sponsors:

Jumaane D. Williams, Vanessa L. Gibson

Council Member Sponsors:

2

Summary:

This bill would require landlords to provide building occupants with two weeks’ notice prior to making a building amenity unavailable if the amenity will be unavailable for more than twenty-four hours, excluding periods during which the amenity is normally unavailable. The notice would have to be posted in a prominent place in the building, identify the amenity which is to be made unavailable and state the expected duration of its unavailability. Where an amenity will be permanently unavailable, the notice must remain posted for at least 30 days after the amenity becomes unavailable. Building amenities made unavailable on an emergency basis would be exempt from the notice requirement. This bill would also require HPD to publish rules regarding what constitutes an emergency basis.

Attachments:

1. Summary of Int. No. 526, 2. Committee Report 12/9/14, 3. Hearing Testimony 12/9/14, 4. Hearing Transcript 12/9/14