N.Y. Civil Rights Law Section 94
Limitation on right to request police or emergency assistance prohibited

A municipality, municipal authority, landlord or property owner shall not prohibit, restrict, penalize or in any other way directly or indirectly limit any person’s exercise of rights under this article and any such limitation shall be void as contrary to public policy. The protections of this prohibition shall extend to any residential occupant upon whose behalf a third party has called for police or emergency assistance.

Source: Section 94 — Limitation on right to request police or emergency assistance prohibited, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/CVR/94 (updated Sep. 20, 2019; accessed Nov. 15, 2025).

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