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Assembly Bill A11674

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the adoption of the Mass Timber International Building Code (IBC) Standard Type IV-A, IV-B, and IV-C

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2025-A11674 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §378, Exec L; amd §28-701.1, NYC Ad Cd

2025-A11674 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the adoption of the Mass Timber International Building Code (IBC) Standard Type IV-A, IV-B, and IV-C by the state fire prevention and building code council; directs the NYC commissioner of buildings to submit the code for adoption by the city council.

2025-A11674 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   11674
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             September 2, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Simone) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law and the  administrative  code  of  the
   city  of  New  York,  in  relation  to the adoption of the Mass Timber
   International Building Code (IBC) Standard Type IV-A, IV-B, and IV-C

   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 1-b to read as follows:
   1-B.  STANDARDS  FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF ALL NEW BUILDINGS AND FOR THE
 CONSTRUCTION OR RENOVATION OF  EXISTING  BUILDINGS WHICH ADOPTS THE MASS
 TIMBER INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE (IBC) STANDARD TYPE IV-A,  IV-B,  AND
 IV-C.
   §  2.  Section  28-701.1 of the administrative code of the city of New
 York, as added by local law number 33 of the city of New  York  for  the
 year 2007, is amended to read as follows:
   §28-701.1  Update.  No  later  than the third year after the effective
 date of this section 701.1 and every third year thereafter, the  commis-
 sioner  shall submit to the city council proposed amendments that [he or
 she] SUCH COMMISSIONER determines should be made to this code  to  bring
 it up to date with the latest edition of the International Building Code
 or  otherwise  modify  the provisions thereof. In addition, prior to the
 submission of such proposal to the city council, such proposal shall  be
 submitted  to  an  advisory  committee  established  by the commissioner
 pursuant to this title for review and comment.  NO  LATER  THAN  JANUARY
 FIRST,  TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY-EIGHT THE COMMISSIONER SHALL SUBMIT TO THE
 CITY COUNCIL PROPOSED AMENDMENTS WHICH PROVIDE FOR THE ADOPTION OF   THE
 MASS  TIMBER INTERNATIONAL BUILDING CODE (IBC) STANDARD TYPE IV-A, IV-B,
 AND IV-C.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16138-01-6

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