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Assembly Bill A5698

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides that certain multiple dwellings must be heated to a minimum temperature of sixty degrees Fahrenheit between 10 pm and 6 am

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2009-A5698 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6147
Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
Multiple Dwelling Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง79, Mult Dwell L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A2531

2009-A5698 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that certain multiple dwellings must be heated to a minimum temperature of sixty degrees Fahrenheit between the hours of 10 pm and 6 am, increasing such minimum temperature from the present requirement of fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit.

2009-A5698 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5698

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 17, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. V. LOPEZ, COOK, TOWNS, PERRY, GREENE, MILLMAN,
  KAVANAGH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GLICK, ORTIZ --  read  once
  and referred to the Committee on Housing

AN  ACT  to  amend the multiple dwelling law, in relation to the heating
  requirements for tenants in multiple dwellings

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 79 of the multiple dwelling law,
as amended by chapter 225 of the laws of 1982, is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  1. Every multiple dwelling exceeding two stories in height and erected
after  April eighteenth, nineteen hundred twenty-nine, and every garden-
type maisonette dwelling project erected after April  eighteenth,  nine-
teen  hundred  fifty-four,  shall  be  provided  with heat. On and after
November first, nineteen hundred  fifty-nine,  every  multiple  dwelling
shall  be  provided  with  heat or the equipment or facilities therefor.
During the months between October first and May thirty-first, such  heat
and  the  equipment  or  facilities  shall be sufficient to maintain the
minimum temperatures required by local law,  ordinance,  rule  or  regu-
lation,  in  all  portions  of  the dwelling used or occupied for living
purposes provided, however, that such minimum temperatures shall  be  as
follows:    (a)  sixty-eight degrees Fahrenheit during the hours between
six o'clock in the morning and ten o'clock in the evening, whenever  the
outdoor  temperature falls below fifty-five degrees Fahrenheit, notwith-
standing the provisions of paragraph a of subdivision  four  of  section
three  of  this  chapter,  and  (b)  at least [fifty-five] SIXTY degrees
Fahrenheit during the hours between ten o'clock in the evening  and  six
o'clock  in  the  morning,  whenever the outdoor temperature falls below
forty degrees Fahrenheit. Nothing in this section  shall  be  deemed  to
relieve  any  owner of the duty of providing centrally supplied or other
approved source of  heat  prior  to  November  first,  nineteen  hundred

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08979-01-9

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