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Assembly Bill A10630

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires a homeowner be provided a cost estimate for installation of a fire sprinkler system

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2017-A10630 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6199
Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §771-b, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A2468, S1645
2021-2022: A711, S1383

2017-A10630 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a homeowner be provided a cost estimate for installation of a fire sprinkler system.

2017-A10630 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10630
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 9, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WALLACE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring  that
   a  homeowner  be  provided  a cost estimate for installation of a fire
   sprinkler system
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 771-b to read as follows:
   §  771-B.  FOR ALL PRIVATE, ONE-FAMILY HOME CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTED ON
 OR AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION, THE HOME CONSTRUCTION ESTI-
 MATE MUST INCLUDE A COST ESTIMATE FOR THE INSTALLATION OF A FIRE  SPRIN-
 KLER  SYSTEM.  NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO REQUIRE THE
 HOME BUYER TO PURCHASE SUCH A SYSTEM.
   § 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11704-01-7

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