Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 50, December 11, 2024
Section 2505.3 - Conditional rental(a) No person shall require a tenant or prospective tenant to purchase or lease, or agree to purchase or lease, furniture or any other personal property, such as shares to an apartment prior to an approved plan of cooperative conversion, as a condition of renting housing accommodations.(b) No person shall require a tenant or prospective tenant to agree as a condition of renting a housing accommodation, that the housing accommodation shall not be used as the tenant's primary residence.(c) No person shall require a tenant or prospective tenant to sign a lease or other rental agreement in the name of a corporation or for professional or commercial use as a condition of renting a housing accommodation when the apartment is to be used as the primary residence of the prospective tenant for residential purposes.(d) The term person as used in this section shall include an agent or any other employee of a landlord acting with or without the authority of his employer.(e) The term person as used in this section shall also include a tenant in occupancy of housing accommodations who attempts to sell furniture or any other property to an incoming tenant.N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 9 § 2505.3