Bill Text: NY A08495 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 8495 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires professional engineers, land surveyors and professional geologists to report structural faults within forty-eight hours.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to higher education [A08495 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A08495-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8495

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 17, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. J. A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring professional
          engineers, land surveyors and professional geologists to report struc-
          tural faults within forty-eight hours

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  7209 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
     3    10. Every professional engineer, land surveyor and professional geolo-
     4  gist who finds a structural defect, fault, or other issue with any  type
     5  of  structure shall report such issue to the county, city, town, village
     6  and/or other political subdivision in which such  structure  is  located
     7  within forty-eight hours of discovering such issue.
     8    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
     9  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11943-01-1