N.Y. Penal Law § 241.00: Harassment of a rent regulated tenant; definition of terms

§ 241.00 Harassment of a rent regulated tenant; definition of terms.

As used in this article:

1. "Rent regulated tenant" shall mean a person occupying a housing

accommodation or any lawful successor to the tenancy which is subject to

the regulations and control of residential rents and evictions pursuant

to the emergency housing rent control law, the local emergency housing

rent control act, the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen

seventy-four, the New York city rent and rehabilitation law or the New

York city rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine, and

such person is either a party to a lease or rental agreement for such

housing accommodation, a statutory tenant or a person who lawfully

occupies such housing accommodation with such party to a lease or rental

agreement or with such statutory tenant. The definition of "rent

regulated tenant" as used in this subdivision shall be applicable only

to the provisions of this article and shall not be applicable to any

other provision of law.

2. "Housing accommodations" shall mean housing accommodations which

are subject to the regulations and control of residential rents and

evictions pursuant to the emergency housing rent control law, the local

emergency housing rent control act, the emergency tenant protection act

of nineteen seventy-four, the New York city rent and rehabilitation law

or the New York city rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred

sixty-nine.

3. "Owner" shall mean an owner, lessor, sublessor, assignee, net

lessee, or a proprietary lessee of a housing accommodation in a

structure or premises owned by a cooperative corporation or association,

or an owner of a condominium unit or the sponsor of such cooperative

corporation or association or condominium development, or any other

person or entity receiving or entitled to receive rent for the use or

occupation of any housing accommodation, or an agent of or any person

acting on behalf of any of the foregoing.

4. "Residential building" shall mean a structure built upon an

identifiable borough-block-lot or section-block-lot number that contains

multiple dwelling units, at least one of which is subject to the

regulations and control of residential rents and evictions pursuant to

the emergency housing rent control law, the local emergency housing rent

control act, the emergency tenant protection act of nineteen

seventy-four, the New York city rent and rehabilitation law or the New

York city rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred sixty-nine. The

definition of "residential building" as used in this subdivision shall

be applicable only to the provisions of this article and shall not be

applicable to any other provision of law.