Bill Text: NY A01995 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides immunity from administrative action against New York City fire officers who, due to lack of training, are effectively unable to properly conduct building inspections.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-21 - print number 1995a [A01995 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A01995-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1995--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 17, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Governmental  Employees -- recommitted to the Committee on Govern-
          mental Employees in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- commit-
          tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and  recom-
          mitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general municipal law, in relation to providing
          immunity from administrative action against certain New York city fire
          officers
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  general  municipal  law  is  amended by adding a new
     2  section 209-fff to read as follows:
     3    § 209-fff. Liability of fire officers. In any city with  a  population
     4  of one million or more, the fire officers of the fire department of such
     5  city  shall  be immune from administrative liability relating to any act
     6  or omission which may be attributable to the failure of the fire depart-
     7  ment of such city to provide training to such officers in regard to  the
     8  building  and construction codes and local ordinances of such city, with
     9  an emphasis on the inspection duties of fire officers, and any pertinent
    10  changes in such duties resulting from the enactment of or any  amendment
    11  to any of such codes on or after July first, two thousand eight.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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