2023 New York Laws › RPP - Real Property › Article 7 - Landlord and Tenant › 231 - Lease, When Void; Liability of Landlord Where Premises Are Occupied for Unlawful Purpose.

§  231.  Lease,  when  void;  liability of landlord where premises are
  occupied for unlawful purpose. 1. Whenever the lessee or occupant  other
  than  the  owner  of  any  building or premises, shall use or occupy the
  same, or any part thereof, for any illegal trade, manufacture  or  other
  business,  the  lease  or agreement for the letting or occupancy of such
  building or premises, or any part thereof shall thereupon  become  void,
  and  the landlord of such lessee or occupant may enter upon the premises
  so let or occupied.
2. The owner of real property, knowingly leasing or giving  possession
  of  the  same to be used or occupied, wholly or partly, for any unlawful
  trade, manufacture or business, or knowingly permitting the same  to  be
  so  used,  is liable severally, and also jointly with one or more of the
  tenants or  occupants  thereof,  for  any  damage  resulting  from  such
  unlawful use, occupancy, trade, manufacture or business.
3.  For  the  purposes of this section, two or more convictions of any
  person or persons had, within a period of  one  year,  for  any  of  the
  offenses  described  in  section 230.00, 230.05, 230.06, 230.11, 230.12,
  230.13, 230.20, 230.25, 230.30,  230.32  or  230.40  of  the  penal  law
  arising  out  of conduct engaged in at the same premises consisting of a
  dwelling as that term is defined in subdivision four of section four  of
  the  multiple dwelling law shall be presumptive evidence of unlawful use
  of such premises and of the owners knowledge of the same.
4. Any lease or  agreement  hereafter  executed  for  the  letting  or
  occupancy  of  real  property  or any portion thereof, to be used by the
  lessee as a residence,  which  contains  therein  a  provision  pledging
  personal  property  exempt  by  law  from  levy and sale by virtue of an
  execution, as security for the payment of rent  due  or  to  become  due
  thereunder, is void as to such provision.
* 5.  The attorney general may commence an action or proceeding in the
  supreme court to enjoin the continued  unlawful  trade,  manufacture  or
  business in such premises.
* NB There are 2 sub 5's
* 5.  For the purposes of this section, two or more convictions of any
  person or persons had, within a period of  one  year,  for  any  of  the
  offenses  described  in  section 225.00, 225.05, 225.10, 225.15, 225.20,
  225.30, 225.32, 225.35 or 225.40  of  the  penal  law,  arising  out  of
  conduct engaged in at the same premises consisting of a dwelling as that
  term  is  defined  in  subdivision  four of section four of the multiple
  dwelling law shall be presumptive  evidence  of  unlawful  use  of  such
  premises and of the owner's knowledge of the same.
* NB There are 2 sub 5's
6.  Any owner or tenant, including a tenant of one or more rooms of an
  apartment house, tenement house or multiple  dwelling  of  any  premises
  within  two  hundred  feet of the demised real property, may commence an
  action or proceeding in supreme court to enjoin the  continued  unlawful
  trade, manufacture or other business in such premises.