§ 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.
  * NB Effective until May 31, 2020
  * 1.  "Rent  regulated tenant" shall mean a person occupying a housing
accommodation or any lawful successor to the tenancy 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.
  * NB Effective May 31, 2020
  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.