Bill Text: NY A08963 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires the New York state uniform fire prevention and building code to address standards for the installation of carbon monoxide detectors in restaurants and other commercial buildings; requires the installation of carbon monoxide detectors in restaurants and other commercial buildings.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2014-12-29 - signed chap.541 [A08963 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A08963-Amended.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        8963--A
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     March 4, 2014
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT, LUPINACCI -- read once and referred
         to the Committee on Governmental Operations --  committee  discharged,
         bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
         committee
       AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the New York
         state uniform fire prevention and building code to  address  standards
         for  the  installation and maintenance of carbon monoxide detectors in
         restaurants and other commercial 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 "Steven
    2  Nelson's law".
    3    S 2. Section 378 of the executive law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    4  subdivision 5-d to read as follows:
    5    5-D.  STANDARDS  FOR INSTALLATION OF CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTING DEVICES
    6  REQUIRING THAT THE OWNER OF EVERY BUILDING THAT  CONTAINS  ONE  OR  MORE
    7  RESTAURANTS  AND  THE  OWNER  OF  EVERY COMMERCIAL BUILDING IN THE STATE
    8  SHALL HAVE INSTALLED IN SUCH BUILDING AND SHALL MAINTAIN OPERABLE CARBON
    9  MONOXIDE DETECTING DEVICE OR DEVICES OF  SUCH  MANUFACTURE,  DESIGN  AND
   10  INSTALLATION  STANDARDS AS ARE ESTABLISHED BY THE COUNCIL. CARBON MONOX-
   11  IDE DETECTING DEVICES SHALL  ONLY  BE  REQUIRED  IF  THE  RESTAURANT  OR
   12  COMMERCIAL  BUILDING  HAS  APPLIANCES,  DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THAT MAY EMIT
   13  CARBON MONOXIDE OR HAS AN ATTACHED GARAGE.
   14    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   15  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14207-02-4
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