A742 • 2025

Requires certain owners of multiple dwellings in N.Y. city to designate a secure space for packages to be delivered to

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Linda Rosenthal
Last action: 2026-05-20
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires certain owners of multiple dwellings in N.Y. city to designate a secure space for packages to be delivered to

Requires certain owners of multiple dwellings in N.Y.

What This Bill Does

Requires certain owners of multiple dwellings in N.Y.
city to designate a secure space for packages to be delivered to Requires owners of multiple dwellings with fifty or more units in cities with a population of one million or more to designate a secure, locked, monitored space, accessible only to staff, residents, or delivery people, for packages to be delivered to.

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Bill History

2026-05-20 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES
2026-05-08 Assembly
AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO HOUSING
2026-05-08 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 742A
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO HOUSING
2025-01-08 Assembly
REFERRED TO HOUSING

Official Summary Text

Requires certain owners of multiple dwellings in N.Y. city to designate a secure space for packages to be delivered to
Requires owners of multiple dwellings with fifty or more units in cities with a population of one million or more to designate a secure, locked, monitored space, accessible only to staff, residents, or delivery people, for packages to be delivered to.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                           742

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                       (PREFILED)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Housing

        AN ACT to amend the multiple dwelling  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          owners  of  multiple  dwellings  in  cities  with  a population of one
          million or more to designate a secure space for packages to be  deliv-
          ered to

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. The section heading of section 57 of the multiple  dwelling
     2  law is amended and a new subdivision 3 is added to read as follows:
     3    Bells; mail receptacles; PACKAGES.
     4    3.  (A)  IN  CITIES WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, WHENEVER
     5  THE OWNER OF A MULTIPLE DWELLING HAS NOT ARRANGED  FOR  PACKAGES  TO  BE
     6  DELIVERED  TO  OCCUPANTS THEREOF BY SUCH OWNER, OR SUCH OWNER'S AGENT OR
     7  EMPLOYEES, SUCH OWNER SHALL DESIGNATE A SECURE SPACE WITHIN THE BUILDING
     8  FOR PACKAGES TO BE DELIVERED TO.   SUCH SPACE MAY  BE  A  PACKAGE  ROOM,
     9  MANAGEMENT OFFICE, CLOSET, OR OTHER SIMILARLY DESIGNATED SPACE, AND SUCH
    10  SPACE SHALL BE:
    11    (I) LOCKED;
    12    (II)  ACCESSIBLE  ONLY  TO  STAFF, RESIDENTS OR DELIVERY PEOPLE WITH A
    13  KEY;
    14    (III) MONITORED BY A CAMERA OR OTHER SURVEILLANCE DEVICE; AND
    15    (IV) A SPACE OTHER THAN THE BUILDING VESTIBULE OR LOBBY.
    16    (B) THE CREATION  OF  SUCH  PACKAGE  ROOM  SHALL  NOT  RESULT  IN  ANY
    17  INCREASED  COST  TO  THE  TENANT.  IF  NO SUCH SPACE IS AVAILABLE IN THE
    18  BUILDING, THEN BUILDING STAFF ARE REQUIRED TO DELIVER  PACKAGES  TO  THE
    19  DOORWAYS OF THE RESIDENTS TO WHICH THEY ARE ADDRESSED.
    20    (C)  FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL RESULT IN THE OWNER
    21  OF THE MULTIPLE DWELLING BEING  RESPONSIBLE  FOR  THE  FULL  REPLACEMENT
    22  PRICE  OF  ANY  ITEM  LOST  OR  STOLEN, SO LONG AS THE TENANT IS ABLE TO

         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02246-01-5
        A. 742                              2

     1  PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF LOSS AND THE VALUE OF SUCH  LOST  OR  STOLEN  ITEMS.
     2  SUCH  EVIDENCE  MAY INCLUDE A DELIVERY CONFIRMATION.  A TENANT SHALL NOT
     3  BE REQUIRED TO FILE A POLICE REPORT OR SIMILAR  DOCUMENTATION  TO  PROVE
     4  THE LOSS OF SUCH ITEM.
     5    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     6  have become a law.