Bill Text: NY A03910 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the Kerry Rose Fitzsimons fire safety act requiring interconnectable smoke detecting devices to be installed in certain residential buildings.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to governmental operations [A03910 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03910-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3910
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 31, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DenDEKKER  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation  to  requiring  intercon-
          nectable  smoke  detecting devices to be installed in certain residen-
          tial buildings
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Kerry Rose
     2  Fitzsimons fire safety act".
     3    §  2.  Paragraph  a of subdivision 5-b of section 378 of the executive
     4  law, as separately amended by chapters 96 and 506 of the laws  of  1988,
     5  is amended to read as follows:
     6    a.  every  one or two-family dwelling [or any] shall have installed an
     7  operable interconnectable smoke detecting device or devices. Any  dwell-
     8  ing  accommodation located in a building owned as a condominium or coop-
     9  erative in the state used as a residence shall have installed an  opera-
    10  ble single station smoke detecting alarm device or devices,
    11    §  3.  Section  372  of  the  executive law is amended by adding a new
    12  subdivision 20 to read as follows:
    13    20. "Interconnectable smoke  detecting  device"  or  "interconnectable
    14  smoke  detecting  alarm  device"  means a battery operated or hard-wired
    15  smoke detecting alarm device that communicates with other  such  devices
    16  so  that  when  one such device give warnings the other interconnectable
    17  smoke detecting alarm devices will also give warnings.
    18    § 4. This act shall take effect January 1,  2028;  provided,  however,
    19  that  effective  immediately,  the addition and/or repeal of any rule or
    20  regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective
    21  date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective
    22  date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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