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Assembly Bill A8894A

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Establishes uniform procedures authorizing municipalities to grant building permits upon certification by a licensed professional engineer or a registered architect in good standing

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2017-A8894 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6950
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §377, Exec L

2017-A8894 - Summary

Establishes uniform procedures authorizing municipalities to grant building permits upon certification by a licensed professional engineer or a registered architect in good standing for certain alterations to existing residential or commercial buildings which do not alter load bearing walls, accessibility that is compliant with the ADA or fire egress and which maintains fire ratings.

2017-A8894 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8894
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 5, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the executive law, in relation to establish procedures
   authorizing certain municipalities  to  grant  building  permits  upon
   certification  by  a  licensed  professional  engineer or a registered
   architect for certain alterations to existing commercial buildings

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraphs d and e of subdivision 2 of section 377 of the
 executive law, as added by chapter 707 of the laws of 1981, are  amended
 and a new paragraph f is added to read as follows:
   d.  encourage,  so  far  as may be practicable, the standardization of
 construction practices, methods,  equipment,  material  and  techniques;
 [and]
   e. eliminate restrictive, obsolete, conflicting and unnecessary build-
 ing  regulations  and  requirements which tend to increase unnecessarily
 construction costs or retard unnecessarily the use of new materials,  or
 provide  unwarranted preferential treatment to types or classes of mate-
 rial or products or methods of construction[.]; AND
   F. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE CONTRARY, ESTAB-
 LISH A PROCEDURE AUTHORIZING MUNICIPALITIES IN NASSAU AND SUFFOLK  COUN-
 TIES  TO  GRANT A BUILDING PERMIT IN CASES WHERE A LICENSED PROFESSIONAL
 ENGINEER OR A REGISTERED ARCHITECT CERTIFIES TO  THE  MUNICIPALITY  THAT
 THE PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION IS IN CONFORMANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE
 UNIFORM  FIRE PREVENTION AND BUILDING CODE; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH
 PROCEDURE SHALL ALLOW A MUNICIPALITY TO  ACCEPT  A  CERTIFICATION  BY  A
 LICENSED  PROFESSIONAL  ENGINEER OR A REGISTERED ARCHITECT ONLY IN CASES
 WHERE THE PERMIT APPLICATION IS FOR ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING  RESIDENTIAL
 OR  COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS, WHERE SUCH ALTERATIONS DO NOT ALTER LOAD BEAR-
 ING WALLS, DO NOT ALTER EXISTING ACCESSIBILITY THAT  IS  COMPLIANT  WITH
 THE  FEDERAL  AMERICANS  WITH  DISABILITIES  ACT,  MEETS ALL FIRE EGRESS
 REQUIREMENTS, AND MAINTAINS AT LEAST THE SAME FIRE RATING AS BEFORE  THE
 PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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2017-A8894A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6950
Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §377, Exec L

2017-A8894A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes uniform procedures authorizing municipalities to grant building permits upon certification by a licensed professional engineer or a registered architect in good standing for certain alterations to existing residential or commercial buildings which do not alter load bearing walls, accessibility that is compliant with the ADA or fire egress and which maintains fire ratings.

2017-A8894A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8894--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 5, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. THIELE, MURRAY -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Governmental Operations  --  committee  discharged,  bill
   amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
   tee
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  establishing  uniform
   procedures  authorizing  municipalities to grant building permits upon
   certification by a licensed  professional  engineer  or  a  registered
   architect in good standing for certain alterations to existing commer-
   cial buildings
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs d and e of subdivision 2 of section 377  of  the
 executive  law, as added by chapter 707 of the laws of 1981, are amended
 and a new paragraph f is added to read as follows:
   d. encourage, so far as may be  practicable,  the  standardization  of
 construction  practices,  methods,  equipment,  material and techniques;
 [and]
   e. eliminate restrictive, obsolete, conflicting and unnecessary build-
 ing regulations and requirements which tend  to  increase  unnecessarily
 construction  costs or retard unnecessarily the use of new materials, or
 provide unwarranted preferential treatment to types or classes of  mate-
 rial or products or methods of construction[.]; AND
   F. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY LAW, RULE OR REGULATION TO THE CONTRARY, ESTAB-
 LISH  A UNIFORM PROCEDURE AUTHORIZING MUNICIPALITIES, EXCEPT CITIES WITH
 A POPULATION IN EXCESS OF ONE MILLION, WHICH ADOPT A LOCAL LAW AUTHORIZ-
 ING THE ADOPTION OF SUCH UNIFORM PROCEDURE, TO GRANT A  BUILDING  PERMIT
 IN  CASES  WHERE A LICENSED PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER OR A REGISTERED ARCHI-
 TECT IN GOOD STANDING CERTIFIES TO THE MUNICIPALITY  THAT  THE  PROPOSED
 CONSTRUCTION IS IN CONFORMANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE UNIFORM FIRE
 PREVENTION  AND  BUILDING  CODE;  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH PROCEDURE
 SHALL ALLOW A MUNICIPALITY TO  ACCEPT  A  CERTIFICATION  BY  A  LICENSED
 PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER OR A REGISTERED ARCHITECT IN GOOD STANDING ONLY IN
 CASES  WHERE THE PERMIT APPLICATION IS FOR ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING RESI-
 DENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS, WHERE SUCH  ALTERATIONS  DO  NOT  ALTER
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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