Senate Bill S1219

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires the installation of fire extinguishers in all multiple dwellings

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Current 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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2023-S1219 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §378, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S6250
2019-2020: S2813
2021-2022: S3443

2023-S1219 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the installation of fire extinguishers in all multiple dwellings.

2023-S1219 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S1219 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1219
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 10, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  COMRIE,  JACKSON, KAVANAGH, SEPULVEDA, 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 requiring fire extin-
   guishers in every multiple dwelling

   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 5-e to read as follows:
   5-E.  STANDARDS  FOR  INSTALLATION OF FIRE EXTINGUISHERS SHALL REQUIRE
 INSTALLATION OF SUCH EXTINGUISHERS IN ALL MULTIPLE  DWELLINGS  AT  LEAST
 ONE  PER  FLOOR,  WITH THE MAXIMUM TRAVEL DISTANCE BETWEEN EXTINGUISHERS
 NOT TO EXCEED SEVENTY-FIVE FEET. SUCH FIRE  EXTINGUISHERS  SHALL  BE  OF
 SUCH  MANUFACTURE,  DESIGN AND INSTALLATION STANDARDS AS ARE ESTABLISHED
 BY THE COUNCIL. FOR PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION,  MULTIPLE  DWELLING
 MEANS  A DWELLING WHICH IS EITHER RENTED OR LEASED 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.
   § 2. This  act  shall  take  effect  immediately;  provided  that  the
 provisions  of  subdivision  5-e  of section 378 of the executive law as
 added by section one of this act shall not require compliance by  owners
 of multiple dwellings before two years after such effective date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03415-01-3


              

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