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Assembly Bill A5713

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires professional engineers, land surveyors and professional geologists to report structural faults within forty-eight hours

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2025-A5713 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §7209, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A8495
2023-2024: A3098

2025-A5713 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires professional engineers, land surveyors and professional geologists to report structural faults within forty-eight hours.

2025-A5713 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5713
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring professional
   engineers, land surveyors and professional geologists to report struc-
   tural faults within forty-eight hours

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 7209 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
   10. EVERY PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER, LAND SURVEYOR AND PROFESSIONAL GEOLO-
 GIST  WHO FINDS A STRUCTURAL DEFECT, FAULT, OR OTHER ISSUE WITH ANY TYPE
 OF STRUCTURE SHALL REPORT SUCH ISSUE TO THE COUNTY, CITY, TOWN,  VILLAGE
 AND/OR  OTHER  POLITICAL  SUBDIVISION IN WHICH SUCH STRUCTURE IS LOCATED
 WITHIN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS OF DISCOVERING SUCH ISSUE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04392-01-5

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