Bill Text: NY A08065 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to subjecting owners who knew or should have known about an alteration in violation of the uniform code to a civil penalty; subjects owners to up to a seven thousand five hundred dollar penalty when the alteration to the building violated the uniform code and impeded a person's egress from the building during an evacuation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-10 - held for consideration in governmental operations [A08065 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08065-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8065

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 31, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DeSTEFANO  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to subjecting owners  who
          knew  or  should  have  known  about an alteration in violation of the
          uniform code to a civil penalty

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

     1    Section 1. Section 382 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4.  Where a building has been altered in violation of any provision of
     4  the uniform code or any  lawful  order  obtained  thereunder,  and  such
     5  alteration impedes a person's egress from such building during a fire or
     6  other emergency evacuation, the owner of such building who has knowledge
     7  of such alteration or should have had knowledge of such alteration shall
     8  be  subject  to  a  civil  penalty  of up to seven thousand five hundred
     9  dollars.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06465-01-9
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