File #: Int 0495-2024    Version: Name: Limiting increases of occupancy fees for self-storage units and restricting the reasons for termination of an occupancy agreement.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
Committee: Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
On agenda: 2/28/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to fee disclosures for self-storage facilities and storage warehouses
Sponsors: Justin L. Brannan, Robert F. Holden, Oswald J. Feliz, Gale A. Brewer, Shahana K. Hanif, Farah N. Louis, Lincoln Restler, Susan Zhuang, Mercedes Narcisse, Crystal Hudson, Jennifer Gutiérrez, (by request of the Brooklyn Borough President)
Council Member Sponsors: 11
Summary: This bill would require self-storage facilities and storage warehouses to provide 60 days’ notice prior to increasing an occupant’s storage fees. In addition, self-storage facilities would not be permitted to terminate occupancies without providing an explanation for such termination. Violations of the prohibitions in this bill would be subject to civil penalties not to exceed $1,000.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 495-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 495, 3. Int. No. 495, 4. February 28, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-28-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 28, 2024, 7. Committee Report 6/17/25, 8. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 9. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 10. Hearing Testimony 6/17/25, 11. Hearing Transcript 6/17/25, 12. Proposed Int. No. 495-A - 10/22/25, 13. Committee Report 10/29/25, 14. Hearing Transcript 10/29/25, 15. Int. No. 495-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 16. Int. No. 495-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 17. October 29, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
10/29/2025AJustin L. Brannan City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/29/2025AJustin L. Brannan City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
10/29/2025*Justin L. Brannan Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/29/2025*Justin L. Brannan Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/29/2025*Justin L. Brannan Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/29/2025AJustin L. Brannan Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
6/17/2025*Justin L. Brannan Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/17/2025*Justin L. Brannan Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/28/2024*Justin L. Brannan City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/28/2024*Justin L. Brannan City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 495-A

 

By Council Members Brannan, Holden, Feliz, Brewer, Hanif, Louis, Restler, Zhuang, Narcisse, Hudson and Gutiérrez (by request of the Brooklyn Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to fee disclosures for self-storage facilities and storage warehouses

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 20-477 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by a local law for the year 2025 amending the administrative code of the city of New York, relating to licensing self-storage facilities, reforming certain storage warehouse requirements, and to repeal section 20-475 of such code, relating to definitions applicable to storage warehouses, section 20-477 of such code, relating to duties of warehouse operators, section 20-479 of such code, relating to storage warehouse bond requirements, and section 20-481 of such code, relating to form contracts for storage warehouses as proposed in introduction number 1290-A, are amended to read as follows:

§ 20-477 [Reserved] Storage fee disclosure. At least 60 days prior to increasing a consumer storage fee, a storage warehouse shall provide the consumer written notice of the new storage fee.

§ 2. Section 20-566.4 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by a local law for the year 2025 amending the administrative code of the city of New York, relating to licensing self-storage facilities, reforming certain storage warehouse requirements, and to repeal section 20-475 of such code, relating to definitions applicable to storage warehouses, section 20-477 of such code, relating to duties of warehouse operators, section 20-479 of such code, relating to storage warehouse bond requirements, and section 20-481 of such code, relating to form contracts for storage warehouses as proposed in introduction number 1290-A, is amended to read as follows:

§ 20-566.4 [Reserved] Occupancy fee disclosure. At least 60 days prior to increasing an occupancy fee, a self-storage facility shall provide the occupant written notice of the new fee. 

§ 3. Section 20-566.5 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by a local law for the year 2025 amending the administrative code of the city of New York, relating to licensing self-storage facilities, reforming certain storage warehouse requirements, and to repeal section 20-475 of such code, relating to definitions applicable to storage warehouses, section 20-477 of such code, relating to duties of warehouse operators, section 20-479 of such code, relating to storage warehouse bond requirements, and section 20-481 of such code, relating to form contracts for storage warehouses as proposed in introduction number 1290-A, is amended to read as follows:

§ 20-566.5 [Reserved] Occupancy termination. a. It shall be unlawful for any self-storage facility to terminate an occupant of such self-storage facility without providing such occupant with an explanation for such termination.

§ 4. This local law takes effect on the same date as a local law amending the administrative code of the city of New York, relating to licensing self-storage facilities, reforming certain storage warehouse requirements, and to repeal section 20-475 of such code, relating to definitions applicable to storage warehouses, section 20-477 of such code, relating to duties of warehouse operators, section 20-479 of such code, relating to storage warehouse bond requirements, and section 20-481 of such code, relating to form contracts for storage warehouses as proposed in introduction number 1290-A for the year 2025, takes effect, and applies only to occupancy agreements entered into on or after such effective date.MHL/SS

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