Senate Bill S9440

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Ensures proper administration and enforcement of the uniform fire prevention and building code and the state energy conservation construction code; and makes conforming technical changes

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Housing, Construction And Community Development Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S9440 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10437
Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§372, 381 & 382, Exec L; amd §11-102, Energy L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S3372, A5620

2021-S9440 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Ensures proper administration and enforcement of the uniform fire prevention and building code and the state energy conservation construction code; provides additional definitions; provides remedies for violations of the code; makes conforming technical changes.

2021-S9440 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S9440 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9440
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 27, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 ensuring proper admin-
   istration  and enforcement of the uniform fire prevention and building
   code and the state energy conservation construction code; and to amend
   the energy law, in relation to making conforming technical changes
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 372 of the executive law, as amended by chapter 309
 of the laws of 1996, subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 159 of the laws
 of  2007 and subdivision 19 as added by chapter 119 of the laws of 2001,
 is amended to read as follows:
   § 372. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall
 have  the  meaning  ascribed  to  them,  unless  the  context  otherwise
 requires:
   1.  "Administrator"  means  the  state  fire administrator established
 pursuant to article six-C of this chapter.
   2. "APPLICABLE CODE ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM" MEANS THE PROGRAM ESTABLISHED
 BY A LOCAL GOVERNMENT OR COUNTY PURSUANT TO THE REGULATIONS  PROMULGATED
 PURSUANT  TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THREE HUNDRED EIGHTY-ONE OF THIS
 ARTICLE, OR, WHERE SO PROVIDED  IN  SUBDIVISION  TWO  OF  SECTION  THREE
 HUNDRED  EIGHTY-ONE  OF  THIS  ARTICLE, THE SECRETARY'S CODE ENFORCEMENT
 PROGRAM, OR, WHERE SO PROVIDED IN SUBDIVISION  SEVEN  OF  SECTION  THREE
 HUNDRED EIGHTY-ONE OF THIS ARTICLE THE DEFAULT CODE ENFORCEMENT PROGRAM.
   3.  "Areas  of  public  assembly"  means  all buildings or portions of
 buildings used for gathering together fifty or more persons  for  amuse-
 ment,  athletic,  civic,  dining, educational, entertainment, patriotic,
 political, recreational, religious, social,  or  similar  purposes,  the
 entire fire area of which they are a part, and the means of egress ther-
 efrom.
   [3.] 4. "Building" means a combination of any materials, whether port-
 able  or fixed, having a roof, to form a structure affording shelter for
 persons, animals or property. The word  "building"  shall  be  construed
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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