MEASURE WOULD LET SENIORS BREAK APARTMENT LEASES.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: -- Associated Press

ALBANY -- Senior citizens will be able to break apartment leases without penalty in New York if they are moving in with relatives for medical reasons, under a bill Gov. George Pataki signed Tuesday.

Sponsors of the new law, which takes effect Sept. 1, said it will give elderly New Yorkers and people caring for them one more option in making sure they are in the proper …