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Senate Bill S6147

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-S6147 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5698
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-S6147 (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-S6147 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S6147 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6147

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             August 31, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. SCHNEIDERMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and
  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

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
fifty-nine in any case where such heat is required by  this  chapter  or

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

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