Bill Text: NY A01666 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires landlords to provide fire extinguishers in all rented apartments; authorizes the promulgation of standards related thereto.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A01666 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A01666-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1666 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 16, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. VANEL, ORTIZ, JEAN-PIERRE, MOSLEY, L. ROSENTHAL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON, SOLAGES -- 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 requiring that 4 every living unit not occupied by the owner of such living unit, which 5 shall include but not be limited to, a two-family dwelling, or any 6 dwelling accommodation located in a building owned as a condominium or 7 cooperative in the state or any multiple dwellings shall have installed 8 an operable fire extinguisher of such manufacture, design and installa- 9 tion standards as are established by the council. For purposes of this 10 subdivision, multiple dwelling means a dwelling which is either rented 11 or leased to be occupied, or is occupied as the temporary or permanent 12 residence or home of three or more families living independently of each 13 other, including but not limited to the following: a tenement, flat 14 house, maisonette apartment, apartment house, apartment hotel, tourist 15 house, bachelor apartment, studio apartment, duplex apartment, kitchen- 16 ette apartment, hotel, lodging house, rooming house, boarding house, 17 boarding and nursery school, furnished room house, club, sorority house, 18 fraternity house, college and school dormitory, convalescent, old age or 19 nursing homes or residences. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00853-01-9
