Bill Text: NY A08217 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to requiring properly installed and functioning detecting systems for all residences.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-05 - reference changed to governmental operations [A08217 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A08217-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8217--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY June 11, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Cities -- recommitted to the Committee on Cities in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the executive law, social services law, multiple dwell- ing law, and multiple residence law, in relation to requiring properly installed and functioning smoke detecting systems for all residences The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 372-a 2 to read as follows: 3 § 372-a. Properly installed and functioning smoke detecting system. 1. 4 (a) Smoke detecting systems shall be installed in all residences upon 5 construction and shall meet the standards set forth in the state fire 6 prevention and building code. Code enforcement personnel, defined by 7 section three hundred seventy-six-a of this article, shall conduct smoke 8 detection system inspections within one year after construction on a new 9 residence is complete. Such inspections shall not be conducted unless 10 the resident provides consent or an administrative warrant has been 11 granted. If a resident provides consent or an administrative warrant is 12 granted, the code enforcement personnel shall ensure the smoke detecting 13 system has been installed correctly and is working properly. 14 (b) Smoke detecting systems shall be installed and functioning proper- 15 ly in all residences required by this section whenever a residence is 16 sold, title of the residence property is transferred, or construction, 17 alteration or repair work requires a permit. 18 (c) Any person receiving benefits pursuant to section one hundred 19 thirty-one-a of the social services law shall receive a smoke detecting 20 system from the department of social services of such municipality. Such 21 systems shall be free of charge to such persons. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10655-05-6
