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Senate Bill S9441

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires landlords in the city of New York to provide fire extinguishers in certain dwellings

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2025-S9441 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
Multiple Dwelling Law
Laws Affected:
Add §69, Mult Dwell L

2025-S9441 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires landlords of non-owner occupied, one-six family dwellings in the city of New York to provide fire extinguishers in all rented apartments; authorizes the promulgation of standards related thereto.

2025-S9441 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9441 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9441
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 12, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CHAN  --  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 multiple dwelling law, in relation to requiring fire
   extinguishers in certain rented dwellings
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The multiple dwelling  law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 section 69 to read as follows:
   § 69. FIRE EXTINGUISHERS REQUIRED IN CERTAIN DWELLINGS. IN A CITY WITH
 A  POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, STANDARDS FOR INSTALLATION OF FIRE
 EXTINGUISHERS REQUIRING THAT EVERY LIVING UNIT NOT OCCUPIED BY THE OWNER
 OF SUCH LIVING UNIT, WHICH SHALL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO,  A  ONE-
 SIX FAMILY DWELLING, OR ANY DWELLING ACCOMMODATION LOCATED IN A BUILDING
 OWNED  AS  A  CONDOMINIUM  OR  COOPERATIVE  IN THE STATE OR ANY MULTIPLE
 DWELLINGS SHALL HAVE INSTALLED AN OPERABLE  FIRE  EXTINGUISHER  OF  SUCH
 MANUFACTURE, DESIGN AND INSTALLATION STANDARDS AS ARE ESTABLISHED BY THE
 STATE  FIRE  PREVENTION  AND BUILDING CODE COUNCIL. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS
 SECTION, 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 ONE 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, KITCHEN-
 ETTE APARTMENT, HOTEL, LODGING 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 RESIDENCES.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15145-01-6

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