* § 241.00 Harassment of a rent regulated tenant; definition of terms.
As used in this article:
1. “Rent regulated tenant” shall mean a person occupying a housing
accommodation which is subject to the regulations and control of
residential rents and evictions pursuant to the emergency housing rent
control law, the local emergency housing rent control act, the emergency
tenant protection act of nineteen seventy-four, the New York city rent
and rehabilitation law or the New York city rent stabilization law of
nineteen hundred sixty-nine, and such person is either a party to a
lease or rental agreement for such housing accommodation, a statutory
tenant or a person who lawfully occupies such housing accommodation with
such party to a lease or rental agreement or with such statutory tenant.
The definition of “rent regulated tenant” as used in this subdivision
shall be applicable only to the provisions of this article and shall not
be applicable to any other provision of law.
2. “Housing accommodations” shall mean housing accommodations which
are subject to the regulations and control of residential rents and
evictions pursuant to the emergency housing rent control law, the local
emergency housing rent control act, the emergency tenant protection act
of nineteen seventy-four, the New York city rent and rehabilitation law
or the New York city rent stabilization law of nineteen hundred
sixty-nine.
3. “Owner” shall mean an owner, lessor, sublessor, assignee, net
lessee, or a proprietary lessee of a housing accommodation in a
structure or premises owned by a cooperative corporation or association,
or an owner of a condominium unit or the sponsor of such cooperative
corporation or association or condominium development, or any other
person or entity receiving or entitled to receive rent for the use or
occupation of any housing accommodation, or an agent of or any person
acting on behalf of any of the foregoing.
* NB Repealed June 16, 2019
