Bill Text: NY A04355 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 4355 (Prior Session Legislation)

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) 2016-03-28 - amended on third reading 4355a [A04355 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04355-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4355--A
                                                                Cal. No. 178
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. DenDEKKER, CAHILL, OTIS, BENEDETTO, O'DONNELL,
          ROBINSON, MARKEY, HOOPER, GALEF, MILLER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
          A. COOK, McDONOUGH, MOSLEY, PEOPLES-STOKES, RAIA,  SCHIMEL,  STECK  --
          read  once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations --
          advanced to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,  retaining
          its place on the order of third reading
        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    § 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    § 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    §  4.  This  act shall take effect January 1, 2027; 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
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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