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Assembly Bill A5887

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires the state uniform fire prevention and building code to include standards requiring the installation of an operable carbon monoxide detector in restaurants

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2011-A5887 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง378, Exec L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
A6311

2011-A5887 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the state uniform fire prevention and building code to include standards requiring the installation of an operable carbon monoxide detector in restaurants constructed or sold after December 1, 2011.

2011-A5887 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5887

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 2, 2011
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the state uniform fire
  prevention and building code standards for the installation of  carbon
  monoxide detectors in restaurants

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 5-a of section 378 of  the  executive  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  367  of  the  laws  of 2009, is amended to read as
follows:
  5-a. A.  Standards  for  installation  of  carbon  monoxide  detectors
requiring  that every one or two-family dwelling, or any dwelling accom-
modation located in a building owned as a condominium or cooperative  in
the state [or], any multiple dwellings, OR ANY RESTAURANT CONSTRUCTED OR
OFFERED  FOR  SALE  AFTER DECEMBER FIRST, TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN shall have
installed an operable carbon  monoxide  detector  of  such  manufacture,
design  and  installation  standards  as are established by the council.
Carbon monoxide detectors required by  this  [section]  SUBDIVISION  are
required  only  where  the  dwelling  unit OR RESTAURANT has appliances,
devices or systems that may emit carbon  monoxide  or  has  an  attached
garage.
  B. (I) For purposes of this subdivision, [multiple dwelling] "MULTIPLE
DWELLING"  means a dwelling which is either rented, leased, let or hired
out, to be occupied[,] or is occupied  as  the  temporary  or  permanent
residence or home of three or more families living independently of each
other,  including  but  not  limited  to the following: a tenement, flat
house, maisonette apartment, apartment house, apartment  hotel,  tourist
house,  bachelor apartment, studio apartment, duplex apartment, kitchen-
ette apartment, hotel, lodging house,  rooming  house,  boarding  house,
boarding and nursery school, furnished room house, club, sorority house,
fraternity  house,  college  and school dormitory, convalescent, AND old

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08987-01-1

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