N.Y. Public Service Law § 228: Landlord-tenant relationship

§ 228. Landlord-tenant relationship. 1. No landlord shall (a)

interfere with the installation of cable television facilities upon his

property or premises, except that a landlord may require:

(1) that the installation of cable television facilities conform to

such reasonable conditions as are necessary to protect the safety,

functioning and appearance of the premises, and the convenience and well

being of other tenants;

(2) that the cable television company or the tenant or a combination

thereof bear the entire cost of the installation, operation or removal

of such facilities; and

(3) that the cable television company agree to indemnify the landlord

for any damage caused by the installation, operation or removal of such

facilities.

(b) demand or accept payment from any tenant, in any form, in exchange

for permitting cable television service on or within his property or

premises, or from any cable television company in exchange therefor in

excess of any amount which the commission shall, by regulation,

determine to be reasonable; or

(c) discriminate in rental charges or otherwise, between tenants who

receive cable television service and those who do not.

2. Rental agreements and leases executed prior to January first,

nineteen hundred seventy-three may be enforced notwithstanding this

section.

3. No cable television company may enter into any agreement with the

owners, lessees or persons controlling or managing buildings served by a

cable television company, or do or permit any act, that would have the

effect, directly or indirectly of diminishing or interfering with

existing rights of any tenant or other occupant of such building to use

or avail himself of master or individual antenna equipment.