NYC Council Introduction 639

intro.nyc/0639-2022 2022-2023 Legislative Session
Creation of a commerical landlord watch list.
Status: Filed (End of Session) Committee on Small Business
Sponsored by Althea V. Stevens
Introduced: August 11, 2022

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.

Sponsors: 10