New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 9 - EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT › Subtitle S - Division of Housing and Community Renewal › Chapter VII - Emergency Housing Rent Control › Subchapter D - Rent And Eviction Regulations-new York City › Part 2205 - Prohibitions › Section 2205.1 - General prohibitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) It
					 shall be unlawful, regardless of any contract, lease or other obligation
					 heretofore entered into, for any person to demand or receive any rent for any
					 housing accommodations in excess of the applicable maximum rent established
					 therefor by the State Rent Commission or the Division of Housing and Community
					 Renewal, or otherwise to do or omit to do any act, in violation of any
					 regulation, order or requirement of such administration under the State
					 Enabling Act or under the Rent Law, or to offer, solicit, attempt or agree to
					 do any of the foregoing.
(b) It
					 shall be unlawful for any person, with intent to cause any tenant to vacate
					 housing accommodations, or to surrender or waive any rights of such tenant
					 under the Rent Law or these regulations, to engage in any course of conduct
					 (including but not limited to interruption or discontinuance of essential
					 services or filing of false documents with or making false statements to the
					 city rent agency) which interferes with or disturbs, or is intended to
					 interfere with or disturb, the comfort, repose, peace or quiet of such tenant
					 in his use or occupancy of the housing accommodations.
(c) The term rent, as defined in section
					 2200.2(k) of this
					 Title, shall also include the payment by a tenant of a fee or rental commission
					 to a landlord or to any person or real estate broker, where such person or real
					 estate broker is an agent or employee of the landlord or is employed by the
					 landlord in connection with the operation of the building, or where such person
					 or real estate broker manages the building in which the housing accommodation
					 is located, or where the landlord or his employee refers the tenant to such
					 person or real estate broker for the purpose of renting the housing
					 accommodation. Where the landlord has listed the housing accommodation with
					 such person or real estate broker for rental purposes, such fact shall be prima
					 facie evidence of the existence of an agency relationship between such other
					 person or real estate broker and the landlord for the purposes of this
					 section.
(d) It shall be unlawful
					 for any person to make any statement or entry false in any material respect in
					 any document or report submitted in any proceeding before the administrator, or
					 required to be kept or filed under the Rent Law or any regulation, order or
					 requirement thereunder, or to willfully omit or neglect to make any material
					 statement or entry required to be made in any such document or
					 report.
(e) It shall be unlawful
					 for a landlord or a successor in interest to use housing accommodations, or the
					 site on which same were located, for purposes other than that specified in the
					 certificate of eviction.