New York Rent Laws
CRRL Table of Contents

The City Rent and Rehabilitation Law [CRRL]

§ 26-412. Prohibitions.

a.   It shall be unlawful, regardless of any contract, lease or
     other obligation heretofore or hereafter 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 city rent agency or otherwise to
     do or omit to do any act, in violation of any regulation,
     order or requirement of the city rent agency under the state
     enabling act or under this chapter, or to offer, solicit
     attempt or agree to do any of the foregoing.

b.   It shall be unlawful for any person to remove or attempt to
     remove from any housing accommodations the tenant or
     occupant thereof or to refuse to renew the lease or
     agreement for the use of said accommodations, because such
     tenant or occupant has taken, or proposes to take, action
     authorized or required by the state rent act or by this
     chapter or any provision of this code, the multiple dwelling
     law, or the health code of the city of New York, or any
     regulation, order or requirement thereunder.

c.   It shall be unlawful for any officer or employee of the city
     rent agency or for any official adviser or consultant to the
     city rent agency to disclose, otherwise than in the course
     of official duty, any information obtained under this
     chapter or to use any such information for personal benefit.

d.   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 this chapter or the
     regulations promulgated thereunder, to engage in any course
     of conduct including but not limited to, interruption or
     discontinuance of essential services which interferes with
     or disturbs or is intended to interfere with or disturb the
     comfort, repose, peace or quiet of such tenant in his or her
     use or occupancy of the housing accommodations.

e.   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 city rent
     agency or required to be kept filed under this chapter or
     any regulation, order or requirement thereunder, or to
     wilfully omit or neglect to make any material statement or
     entry required to be made in any such document or report;

f.   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 any purposes other than that specified
     in the certificate of eviction.

Added by Laws 1985, Ch. 907, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1986.