N.Y.C. Admin. Code § L.L. 2025/144: L.L. 2025/144

Enactment date: 10/25/2025

Int. No. 621-A

By Council Members Nurse, Abreu, Sanchez, Ossé, De La Rosa, Krishnan, Gutiérrez, Stevens, Won, Louis, Hanif, Ayala, Marte, Salaam, Brewer, Cabán, Avilés, Restler, Hudson, Banks, Joseph, Schulman, Farías, Brannan and the Public Advocate (Mr. Williams) (in conjunction with the Brooklyn Borough President)

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to including unlawful evictions in the definition of tenant harassment and making a recommendation on such evictions as a factor in a certification of no harassment

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

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[Consolidated provisions are not included in this Appendix A]

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§ 2. Section 4 of local law number 1 for the year 2018, as amended by local law number 140 for the year 2021, is amended to read as follows:

§ 4. The department, with the advice and assistance that may be provided by any community group described in paragraph (4) of subdivision d of section 27-2093.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by section two of this local law, shall conduct a study to evaluate the effectiveness of the program in reducing harassment of tenants in the areas described in subdivision b of section 27-2093.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York as added by section two of this local law. Such study shall be completed and a report shall be submitted to the speaker of the city council no later than June 27, 2021, provided that an additional such report shall be submitted to the speaker of the city council no later than [November] February 27, [2025] 2026. Such reports shall contain the following information:

1. the number of covered buildings where the owner applied for a certification of no harassment disaggregated by whether the department issued a certification of no harassment, a cure agreement was reached, or a waiver of a certification of no harassment;

2. the location of buildings where the department determined that harassment had occurred, disaggregated by community board and council district disaggregated by whether such building was subject to a cure agreement;

3. metrics which the department determines appropriate to determine the preventive impacts of such program;

4. a determination, using such metrics, as to whether such program resulted in preventive impacts;

5. estimated costs of the program to the city; [and]

6. recommendations for improving the efficacy of such program if the pilot program continues; and

7. for the report due February 27, 2026, a recommendation as to whether an owner’s history of unlawful eviction in violation of section

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of the administrative code of the city of New York or section 768 of the real property actions and proceedings law is useful or reliable criteria to be considered in any future extension of the provisions of this local law or a successor law.

§ 3. This local law takes effect immediately.