What's happening
This bill requires New York City landlords to notify prospective and current tenants of any detected lead hazards and related abatement measures.
Why it matters
Empowers tenants with critical health information. By requiring disclosure of detected lead hazards and remediation efforts, tenants can make more informed choices about their living environments and better protect themselves and their families from lead poisoning risks.
Increases landlord accountability and transparency. Landlords must maintain and share records of lead investigations and any actions taken, creating a paper trail that could deter non-compliance and encourage more thorough hazard remediation.
Extends protections to both new and renewing tenants. The bill ensures that both incoming and current occupants (including those renewing leases or entering other agreements) receive updated information, closing potential loopholes where tenants might otherwise remain uninformed of new or unresolved lead issues.
Supports public health oversight. By requiring landlords to retain reports for ten years and make them available to city authorities, the law enhances the ability of agencies to monitor compliance and respond to lead safety concerns over time.
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Disclose Lead Paint to Renters
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Sponsors
2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Referred to housing
- Referred to housing
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4170
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 1, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, DINOWITZ, BENEDETTO, PERRY, COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK, HOOPER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Housing
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring owners to provide prospective lessees with notification where lead-based paint or lead contaminated dust has been found in the dwelling and any and all abatement measures that have been taken
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision f of section 27-2056.4 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 1 of the city of New York for the year 2004, is amended to read as follows:
f. The owner shall inform the occupant in writing of the results of an investigation undertaken pursuant to this section and shall provide a copy of any such report received or generated by an investigation. The owner shall retain a copy of each investigation report, for ten years from the date of such report and such report shall be made available to the department on request and shall be transferred by the owner to the owner's successor in title. The owner shall provide to an occupant of a dwelling unit at the signing of a lease, including a lease renewal, if any, or upon any agreement to lease, or at the commencement of occupancy if there is no lease and to prospective lessees the most recent results of an investigation undertaken pursuant to this section and any and all abatement measures taken as required by this section where the presence of lead-based paint or lead-contaminated dust was found.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law.
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LBD05478-01-7
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