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Assembly Bill A7622

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires the installation of an assistive listening system in public libraries for use by the hearing impaired

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2013-A7622 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Public Buildings Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง53, Pub Bldg L

2013-A7622 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the installation of an assistive listening system in public libraries for use by the hearing impaired.

2013-A7622 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7622

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 28, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. KELLNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Libraries and Education Technology

AN ACT to amend the public buildings law, in relation to  requiring  the
  installation  of an assistive listening system in public libraries for
  use by the hearing impaired

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

  Section 1. Section 53 of the public buildings law, as amended by chap-
ter 23 of the laws of 1989, is amended to read as follows:
  S 53.  Assistive  listening  systems.    1.  All new public buildings,
construction of which commences after January  first,  nineteen  hundred
ninety-one,  containing  an  auditorium,  theater, meeting hall, hearing
room, amphitheater, or room used in any similar capacity  which  are  so
designated by the appropriate building and fire code shall have equipped
and  installed an assistive listening system for use by hearing impaired
persons who require the use of such a system to improve their  reception
of sound.
  2.  NOTWITHSTANDING  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  THIS  SECTION,  ALL  PUBLIC
LIBRARIES SHALL BE EQUIPPED WITH AN ASSISTIVE LISTENING SYSTEM  FOR  USE
BY  HEARING  IMPAIRED  PERSONS  WHO  REQUIRE THE USE OF SUCH A SYSTEM TO
IMPROVE THEIR RECEPTION OF SOUND. SUCH ASSISTIVE LISTENING SYSTEMS SHALL
BE INSTALLED ON OR BEFORE JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN.
  3. Standards for such systems shall be developed  by  the  state  fire
prevention and building code council upon receiving recommendations from
the  advisory  board  on assistive listening systems in places of public
assembly.
  [3.] 4. For purposes of this section, the  term  "assistive  listening
system" shall mean situational-personal acoustic communication equipment
designed to improve the transmission and auditory reception of sound.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11218-02-3

A. 7622                             2

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