Bill Text: NY S01219 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the installation of fire extinguishers in all multiple dwellings.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT [S01219 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01219-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1219

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  COMRIE,  JACKSON, KAVANAGH, SEPULVEDA, SKOUFIS --
          read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
          the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development

        AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring fire extin-
          guishers in every multiple dwelling

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

     1    Section 1. Section 378 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 5-e to read as follows:
     3    5-e.  Standards  for  installation of fire extinguishers shall require
     4  installation of such extinguishers in all multiple  dwellings  at  least
     5  one  per  floor,  with the maximum travel distance between extinguishers
     6  not to exceed seventy-five feet. Such fire  extinguishers  shall  be  of
     7  such  manufacture,  design and installation standards as are established
     8  by the council. For purposes  of  this  subdivision,  multiple  dwelling
     9  means  a dwelling which is either rented or leased to be occupied, or is
    10  occupied as the temporary or permanent residence or  home  of  three  or
    11  more  families  living  independently  of  each other, including but not
    12  limited to the following: a tenement, flat house, maisonette  apartment,
    13  apartment  house,  apartment  hotel,  tourist house, bachelor apartment,
    14  studio apartment, duplex apartment, kitchenette apartment, hotel,  lodg-
    15  ing  house,  rooming house, boarding house, boarding and nursery school,
    16  furnished room house, club, sorority house,  fraternity  house,  college
    17  and  school  dormitory,  convalescent, old age or nursing homes or resi-
    18  dences.
    19    § 2. This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately;  provided  that  the
    20  provisions  of  subdivision  5-e  of section 378 of the executive law as
    21  added by section one of this act shall not require compliance by  owners
    22  of multiple dwellings before two years after such effective date.

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