NYC Council Introduction 449

intro.nyc/0449-2024 2024-2025 Legislative Session
Creation of a commerical landlord watch list.
Status: Committee Committee on Small Business
Sponsored by Althea V. Stevens
Introduced: February 28, 2024

This bill would require the Department of Small Business Services to establish and maintain a commercial landlord watch list. This watch list would include any commercial landlord who, within the past 10 years, has been found by a court of competent jurisdiction to have engaged in commercial tenant harassment within the meaning of section 22-902 of the Administrative Code. In addition, the watch list would include any commercial landlord who, within the past three years, has engaged in a pattern of behavior that in the opinion of the Commissioner is consistent with harassment or exploitation of a commercial tenant.