Bill Text: NY A01172 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires landlords to provide fire extinguishers in all rented apartments; authorizes the promulgation of standards related thereto.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A01172 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01172-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1172

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring fire  extin-
          guishers in every rented dwelling

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 378 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 5-e to read as follows:
     3    5-e. Standards for installation of fire  extinguishers  shall  require
     4  installation  of  such  extinguishers in all multiple dwellings at least
     5  one per floor, with the maximum travel  distance  between  extinguishers
     6  not  to  exceed  seventy-five  feet. Such fire extinguishers shall be of
     7  such manufacture, design and installation standards as  are  established
     8  by  the  council.  For  purposes  of this subdivision, multiple dwelling
     9  means a dwelling which is either rented or leased to be occupied, or  is
    10  occupied  as  the  temporary  or permanent residence or home of three or
    11  more families living independently of  each  other,  including  but  not
    12  limited  to the following: a tenement, flat house, maisonette apartment,
    13  apartment house, apartment hotel,  tourist  house,  bachelor  apartment,
    14  studio  apartment, duplex apartment, kitchenette apartment, hotel, lodg-
    15  ing house, rooming house, boarding house, boarding and  nursery  school,
    16  furnished  room  house,  club, sorority house, fraternity house, college
    17  and school dormitory, convalescent, old age or nursing  homes  or  resi-
    18  dences.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03415-02-3