Bill Text: NY A00964 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 964 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that in addition to any other applicable remedy or penalty, where a building has been altered in violation of any provision of the uniform code or any lawful order obtained thereunder, and such alteration impedes a person's egress from such building during a fire or other emergency evacuation, the owner of such building, and any builder, architect, contractor, subcontractor or construction superintendent, or agent thereof who has knowledge of such alteration, or an owner who reasonably should have had knowledge of such alteration based on either an inspection or repair of a leased premises with consent from the tenant, shall be subject to a civil penalty of up to seven thousand five hundred dollars.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-02-08 - substituted by s881 [A00964 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00964-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           964

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in  relation  to  violations  of  the
          uniform fire prevention and building code

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 382 of the executive law, as added
     2  by a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending the executive law relating  to
     3  violations of the uniform fire prevention and building code, as proposed
     4  in  legislative bills numbers S. 1714 and A. 3343, is amended to read as
     5  follows:
     6    4. [Where] In addition to any  other  applicable  remedy  or  penalty,
     7  where  a  building has been altered in violation of any provision of the
     8  uniform code or any lawful order obtained thereunder,  and  such  alter-
     9  ation  impedes  a  person's  egress  from such building during a fire or
    10  other emergency evacuation, the owner of such building, and any builder,
    11  architect, contractor, subcontractor or construction superintendent,  or
    12  agent thereof who has knowledge of such alteration, or owner who reason-
    13  ably  should  have  had  knowledge of such alteration based on either an
    14  inspection or repair of a leased premises with consent from the  tenant,
    15  shall be subject to a civil penalty of up to seven thousand five hundred
    16  dollars.
    17    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    18  manner as a chapter of the laws  of  2020  amending  the  executive  law
    19  relating to violations of the uniform fire prevention and building code,
    20  as  proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers S. 1714 and A. 3343, takes
    21  effect.


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