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Assembly Bill A8858

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires carbon monoxide detectors in all buildings which have appliances or systems which emit carbon monoxide

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2013-A8858 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง378, Exec L

2013-A8858 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires carbon monoxide detectors in all buildings which have appliances or systems which emit carbon monoxide; includes existing structures.

2013-A8858 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  8858

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 25, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Governmental Operations

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive  law, in relation to requiring carbon
  monoxide detectors in all buildings which have appliances, devices  or
  systems which emit carbon monoxide

  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. Standards for installation of carbon monoxide detectors requiring
that every [one or two-family dwelling, or  any  dwelling  accommodation
located  in  a]  building  [owned as a condominium or cooperative in the
state or any multiple dwellings] THAT HAS APPLIANCES, DEVICES OR SYSTEMS
THAT MAY EMIT CARBON MONOXIDE OR  HAS  AN  ATTACHED  GARAGE  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 are required only
where the dwelling unit has appliances, devices or systems that may emit
carbon monoxide or has an attached garage. For purposes of this subdivi-
sion, 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 independ-
ently of each other, including but not limited to the following: a tene-
ment, flat  house,  maisonette  apartment,  apartment  house,  apartment
hotel,  tourist  house,  bachelor  apartment,  studio  apartment, duplex
apartment, kitchenette apartment, hotel, lodging house,  rooming  house,
boarding house, boarding and nursery school, furnished room house, club,
sorority  house,  fraternity house, college and school dormitory, conva-
lescent, old age or nursing homes or residences. It shall also include a
dwelling, two or more stories in height, and with five or more boarders,
roomers or lodgers residing with any one family. New construction  shall
mean  a new facility or a separate building added to an existing facili-
ty.] SUCH STANDARDS SHALL INCLUDE PROVISIONS FOR THE TYPE, NUMBER, SPAC-

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

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