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Indoor allergens annual notice and pamphlet (PDF FILE)

Distribute, upon a lease renewal or signing of a new vacancy lease, a Lease/Commencement of Occupancy Notice for Indoor Allergen Hazards that outlines the owner’s obligation to annually inspect the apartment for indoor allergens and their responsibility to remediate mold and pest infestations, including underlying defects, prior to the occupancy of a new tenant. In addition, property owners are required to distribute the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Local Law 55 fact sheet. The pamphlet includes information on what tenants can do to prevent indoor allergens and a property owner’s obligations to eliminate mold and pest infestation.

Section of the Law: HMC § 27-2017.2

§ 27-2017.2 Owners' responsibility to notify occupants and to investigate.

a. The owner of a multiple dwelling shall cause an investigation to be made for indoor allergen hazards in all occupied dwelling units and in common areas as set forth on subdivision b of this section.

b. Investigations shall be undertaken at least once a year and more often if necessary, such as when, in the exercise of reasonable care, an owner knows or should have known of a condition that is reasonably foreseeable to cause an indoor allergen hazard, or an occupant makes a complaint concerning a condition that is likely to cause an indoor allergen hazard or requests an inspection, or the department issues a notice of violation or orders the correction of a violation that is likely to cause an indoor allergen hazard.

c. All leases offered to tenants or prospective tenants in such multiple dwellings shall contain a notice, conspicuously set forth therein, which advises tenants of the obligations of the owner and tenant as set forth in this section. Such notice shall be approved by the department, and shall be in English and in the covered languages set forth in section 8-1002*. The owner of such multiple dwelling shall provide the tenant or prospective tenant of such dwelling unit with the pamphlet developed by the department of health and mental hygiene pursuant to section 17-199.7. Such pamphlet shall be made available in English and in the covered languages set forth in section 8-1002*.

(L.L. 2018/055, 1/19/2018, eff. 1/19/2019)

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STEP 1: PRINT at lease siging the forms attached

STEP 2 :MAIL TO TENANT ON OCTOBER Fire Prevention Week OR ON JANUARY WITH lead paint/window guard information (the process more efficient) -CERTIFIED MAIL

We recomend to mail the follwing on January with the lead paint/ Window Guard:

January required **Windows guard and lead paint notice 2023 English/ Spanish**

1) Indoor allergens annual notice and pamphlet

2) Stove knob covers availability annual notice

3) Building Information Sheet

4) Fire Safety Notice- Non Fireproof building or Fire Safety Notice- Fireproof building

5) NYC Apartment Building Emergency Preparedness Guide 2021

6) Gas leak notice

THIS FORM REQUIRED TO BE GIVEN TO TENANT AT LEASE SIGING

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