 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3215
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 24, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to preventing the  harassment
          of a rent regulated tenant
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The first undesignated paragraph of section 241.05  of  the
     2  penal  law, as amended by chapter 573 of the laws of 2019, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    [The] There shall be  a  presumption  that  a  course  of  conduct  as
     5  described  in subdivision two of this section was intended to cause such
     6  persons to vacate such dwelling units  or  to  surrender  or  waive  any
     7  rights  in relation to such occupancy. However, the good faith commence-
     8  ment and pursuit of a lawful eviction action by an owner against a  rent
     9  regulated  tenant  in  a  court  of competent jurisdiction shall not, by
    10  itself, constitute a "systematic ongoing course of conduct" in violation
    11  of paragraph (c) of subdivision two of this section.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06945-01-5
Prevents the harassment of a rent regulated tenant

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