Bill Text: NY A09214 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-18 - REFERRED TO RULES [A09214 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09214-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 31, 2014
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       Introduced  by  M.  of A. DenDEKKER, CAHILL, OTIS, BENEDETTO, O'DONNELL,
         ROBINSON, MARKEY, HOOPER, BROOK-KRASNY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of
         A.  COOK,  JACOBS,  McDONOUGH,  MOSLEY, PEOPLES-STOKES, RAIA, SCHIMEL,
         STECK, WEISENBERG -- 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 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    S 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    S 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    S  4.  This  act shall take effect January 1, 2024; 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 and directed to be made and completed on or before
   22  such effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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