Senate Bill S3705

                            
 
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                                   3705
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2021
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
   Community Development
 
 AN  ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring combustible
   gas detectors in certain structures

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 378 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 19 to read as follows:
   19.  A.  (I)  STANDARDS  FOR INSTALLATION OF COMBUSTIBLE GAS DETECTORS
 REQUIRING, NO LATER THAN JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-TWO 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  SHALL  HAVE  INSTALLED  AN OPERABLE COMBUSTIBLE GAS
 DETECTOR OF SUCH MANUFACTURE, DESIGN AND INSTALLATION STANDARDS  AS  ARE
 ESTABLISHED BY THE COUNCIL.
   (II)  STANDARDS  FOR THE REPORTING OF GAS LEAKS REPORTED VIA AUTOMATIC
 TRANSMISSION TO A GAS COMPANY BY A GAS DETECTOR BY SUCH  GAS  COMPANIES.
 PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT  SUCH STANDARDS SHALL REQUIRE A GAS COMPANY TO
 ISSUE AN ANNUAL REPORT DETAILING THE  NUMBER  OF  LEAKS  RECEIVED  IN  A
 CALENDAR YEAR DISAGGREGATED BY COUNTY.
   B. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, COMBUSTIBLE GAS DETECTOR MEANS AN
 ALARM DEVICE THAT COMPLIES WITH THE APPLICABLE STANDARDS OF THE AMERICAN
 NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE, OR ITS SUCCESSORS, FOR RESIDENTIAL DEVICES
 FOR  THE  DETECTION  OF  COMBUSTIBLE  QUANTITIES  OF METHANE AND PROPANE
 GASES, UNLESS SUCH STANDARDS ARE SUPERSEDED  BY  RULES  ADOPTED  BY  THE
 COUNCIL.  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH DEVICES SHALL FURTHER BE EQUIPPED
 WITH TECHNOLOGY ENABLING SUCH DEVICES TO AUTOMATICALLY REPORT THE OCCUR-
 RENCE OF EACH GAS LEAK DETECTED BY SUCH DEVICES TO THE COMPANY PROVIDING
 GAS TO THE DWELLING IN WHICH SUCH DEVICE IS LOCATED.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03051-01-1
              

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   C.  FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, MULTIPLE DWELLING MEANS A DWELL-
 ING 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, KITCHENETTE APARTMENT, HOTEL, LODG-
 ING HOUSE, ROOMING HOUSE, BOARDING HOUSE, BOARDING AND  NURSERY  SCHOOL,
 FURNISHED  ROOM  HOUSE,  CLUB, SORORITY HOUSE, FRATERNITY HOUSE, COLLEGE
 AND SCHOOL DORMITORY, CONVALESCENT, OLD AGE OR NURSING  HOMES  OR  RESI-
 DENCES. 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 BUILD-
 ING ADDED TO AN EXISTING FACILITY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.