Senate Bill S9223

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Enacts the Kerry Rose Fitzsimons fire safety act

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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-S9223 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§378 & 372, Exec L

2021-S9223 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the Kerry Rose Fitzsimons fire safety act requiring interconnectable smoke detecting devices to be installed in certain residential buildings.

2021-S9223 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S9223 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9223
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 12, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. REICHLIN-MELNICK -- 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 intercon-
   nectable smoke detecting devices to be installed in  certain  residen-
   tial buildings

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Kerry Rose
 Fitzsimons fire safety act".
   § 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 5-b of section 378  of  the  executive
 law,  as  separately amended by chapters 96 and 506 of the laws of 1988,
 is amended to read as follows:
   a. every one or two-family dwelling [or any] SHALL HAVE  INSTALLED  AN
 OPERABLE  INTERCONNECTABLE SMOKE DETECTING DEVICE OR DEVICES. ANY dwell-
 ing accommodation located in a building owned as a condominium or  coop-
 erative  in the state used as a residence shall have installed an opera-
 ble single station smoke detecting alarm device or devices,
   § 3. Section 372 of the executive law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 subdivision 20 to read as follows:
   20.  "INTERCONNECTABLE  SMOKE  DETECTING  DEVICE" OR "INTERCONNECTABLE
 SMOKE DETECTING ALARM DEVICE" MEANS A  BATTERY  OPERATED  OR  HARD-WIRED
 SMOKE  DETECTING  ALARM DEVICE THAT COMMUNICATES WITH OTHER SUCH DEVICES
 SO THAT WHEN ONE SUCH DEVICE GIVE WARNINGS  THE  OTHER  INTERCONNECTABLE
 SMOKE DETECTING ALARM DEVICES WILL ALSO GIVE WARNINGS.
   §  4.  This  act shall take effect January 1, 2028; provided, however,
 that effective immediately, the addition and/or repeal of  any  rule  or
 regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective
 date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective
 date.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14712-01-2

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