Section 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    * NB Repealed June 16, 2011