Bill Text: NY A02134 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires owners and agents of multiple residences and multiple dwellings to provide names and contact information of residents to emergency personnel upon the request of such personnel, where the physical safety of such residents must be accounted for by ascertaining their whereabouts.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-11-17 - approval memo.21 [A02134 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02134-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2134

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Housing

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the multiple residence law and the multiple dwelling
          law, in relation to requiring owners and agents of multiple residences
          and multiple dwellings to provide names  and  contact  information  of
          residents to emergency personnel

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

     1    Section 1. The multiple residence law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 16 to read as follows:
     3    §  16. Multiple residence emergency information. 1.  In the case of an
     4  emergency affecting a multiple residence, the owner  or  agent  of  such
     5  multiple  residence  shall provide emergency service personnel, upon the
     6  request of such emergency service personnel, including but  not  limited
     7  to  local police and fire departments, with the names and contact infor-
     8  mation of all affected residents or occupants as listed in the lease  of
     9  such  multiple  residence as is required to ascertain the safety of such
    10  residents or occupants. For the purposes of this section,  an  emergency
    11  shall  include  but  not  be  limited  to  fires,  gas  leaks,  building
    12  collapses, natural disasters, acts of terrorism and other  events  where
    13  the  physical  safety of residents must be accounted for by ascertaining
    14  their whereabouts.
    15    2. The owner or agent of such multiple residence shall update the list
    16  of names and contact information of all affected residents or  occupants
    17  of  such  multiple  residence  upon  the execution of a new lease, lease
    18  renewal or lease amendment. Specific and informed written consent  shall
    19  be  obtained  by  the owner or agent of the multiple residence from each
    20  occupant or resident each time the list is updated and no occupant's  or
    21  resident's  name  or  contact information shall be included in such list
    22  without their specific and  informed  written  consent.  Written  notice
    23  shall be provided to the occupant or resident about the contact list and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01438-01-3
        A. 2134                             2

     1  shall  include but not be limited to that such list is maintained by the
     2  owner and the potential impact of opting-out.
     3    3. Such list of names and contact information shall only be maintained
     4  for  the  purpose  of  an  emergency evacuation and shall not be dissem-
     5  inated, used or accessed by emergency services personnel for  any  other
     6  purposes.
     7    §  2.  The multiple dwelling law is amended by adding a new section 15
     8  to read as follows:
     9    § 15. Multiple dwelling emergency information. 1.  In the case  of  an
    10  emergency  affecting  a  multiple  dwelling,  the owner or agent of such
    11  multiple dwelling shall provide emergency service  personnel,  upon  the
    12  request  of  such emergency service personnel, including but not limited
    13  to local police and fire departments, with the names and contact  infor-
    14  mation  of all affected residents or occupants as listed in the lease of
    15  such multiple dwelling as is required to ascertain the  safety  of  such
    16  residents  or  occupants. For the purposes of this section, an emergency
    17  shall  include  but  not  be  limited  to  fires,  gas  leaks,  building
    18  collapses,  natural  disasters, acts of terrorism and other events where
    19  the physical safety of residents must be accounted for  by  ascertaining
    20  their whereabouts.
    21    2.  The owner or agent of such multiple dwelling shall update the list
    22  of names and contact information of all affected residents or  occupants
    23  of  such  multiple  dwelling  upon  the  execution of a new lease, lease
    24  renewal or lease amendment.  Specific and informed written consent shall
    25  be obtained by the owner or agent of the  multiple  dwelling  from  each
    26  occupant  or resident each time the list is updated and no occupant's or
    27  resident's name or contact information shall be included  in  such  list
    28  without  their  specific  and  informed  written consent. Written notice
    29  shall be provided to the occupant or resident about the contact list and
    30  shall include but not be limited to that such list is maintained by  the
    31  owner and the potential impact of opting-out.
    32    3. Such list of names and contact information shall only be maintained
    33  for  the  purpose  of  an  emergency evacuation and shall not be dissem-
    34  inated, used or accessed by emergency services personnel for  any  other
    35  purposes.
    36    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    37  have become a law.