NY Real Property Law › Article 7: Landlord and Tenant

§ 226-a Effect of new lease on tenant's right to remove fixtures or improvements

§ 226-a. Effect of new lease on tenant's right to remove fixtures or improvements. Unless otherwise expressly agreed, where a tenant has a right to remove fixtures or improvements, such right shall not be lost or impaired by reason of his acceptance of a new lease of the same premises without any surrender of possession between terms.

Source: NY Real Property Law, as published by the New York State Senate's Open Legislation service
Last amended: Effective September 22, 2014
Checked: Matched the official code on October 1, 2026

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Text in force in this form since 2014-09-22 per NY Senate Open Legislation (eff. 9/22/2014)

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