CORRECTION

In the December 2001 Tenant/Inquilino, an article we reprinted from City Limits Weekly, "State Court Paints New Face on Lead-Poisoning Cases," incorrectly quoted Matthew Chachere, an attorney representing lead-poisoned children in a class-action suit challenging New York City’s failure to enforce its lead-paint laws. The article quoted Chachere as saying that the city’s 1999 lead law "requires that parents explicitly inform the building owner within a month after moving in that a child is living in the apartment. Chachere and others say this places too much burden on the parents."

"I have never complained about the requirement that parents inform owners about the presence of children," Chachere says. "What I did say was entirely different: That Local Law 38 basically exempts landlords from responsibility for lead hazards unless tenants complain about them, and that this shifting of the burden of knowledge of lead hazard from landlords to tenants is unfair." Tenant/Inquilino regrets the error.