Requiring landlords to test apartment air quality before offering a lease for signature.

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring landlords to test apartment air quality before offering a lease for signature

This local law mandates that the department shall, in consultation with the department of health and mental hygiene, promulgate a list of interior air pollutants threshold amounts of such interior air pollutants above which the concentration of such pollutant in an interior space is hazardous to human life and well-being and, based upon that list, prior to the offer of an initial lease for signature, or prior to occupancy if there is no lease, the owner of a multiple dwelling, or a one or two family dwelling, shall test such dwelling for interior air pollutants, and, if interior air pollutants are found in hazardous amounts, shall remediate such hazards.