Bill Text: NY A07322 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the state fire prevention and building code council to study and adopt uniform fire prevention and building code standards to promote fire safety and accessibility in single-exit, single stairway multi-unit residential buildings above 3 stories and up to at least 6 stories, based on a study of building codes existing in the city of New York and in other cities and jurisdictions that have adopted such buildings into their building codes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A07322 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07322-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7322

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the state
          fire prevention and building code council to study and  adopt  uniform
          fire prevention and building code standards to promote fire safety and
          accessibility in certain single-exit, single stairway multi-unit resi-
          dential buildings

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 19 of section 378  of  the  executive  law,  as
     2  renumbered  by chapter 47 of the laws of 2022, is renumbered subdivision
     3  20 and a new subdivision 19 is added to read as follows:
     4    19. Standard requirements for single-exit, single stairway  multi-unit
     5  residential  buildings  above three stories, up to at least six stories,
     6  pursuant to the following:
     7    a. The council shall conduct a study examining existing building codes
     8  for single-exit, single stairway multi-unit residential buildings  above
     9  three  stories,  up to at least six stories, in the city of New York and
    10  in other cities and jurisdictions that have adopted such buildings  into
    11  their building codes.
    12    b. The council shall consider the effectiveness of the existing build-
    13  ing  codes examined pursuant to paragraph a of this subdivision, and any
    14  improvements to such codes that would promote fire safety  and  accessi-
    15  bility.
    16    c.  The  council  shall  complete  the  study,  and adopt the standard
    17  requirements pursuant to this subdivision, no later than one year  after
    18  the effective date of this subdivision.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10895-02-3