Bill Text: NY A08894 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes uniform procedures authorizing municipalities to grant building permits upon certification by a licensed professional engineer or a registered architect in good standing for certain alterations to existing residential or commercial buildings which do not alter load bearing walls, accessibility that is compliant with the ADA or fire egress and which maintains fire ratings.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-22 - print number 8894a [A08894 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A08894-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8894--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 5, 2018
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. THIELE, MURRAY -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Governmental Operations  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  establishing  uniform
          procedures  authorizing  municipalities to grant building permits upon
          certification by a licensed  professional  engineer  or  a  registered
          architect in good standing for certain alterations to existing commer-
          cial buildings
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraphs d and e of subdivision 2 of section 377  of  the
     2  executive  law, as added by chapter 707 of the laws of 1981, are amended
     3  and a new paragraph f is added to read as follows:
     4    d. encourage, so far as may be  practicable,  the  standardization  of
     5  construction  practices,  methods,  equipment,  material and techniques;
     6  [and]
     7    e. eliminate restrictive, obsolete, conflicting and unnecessary build-
     8  ing regulations and requirements which tend  to  increase  unnecessarily
     9  construction  costs or retard unnecessarily the use of new materials, or
    10  provide unwarranted preferential treatment to types or classes of  mate-
    11  rial or products or methods of construction[.]; and
    12    f. notwithstanding any law, rule or regulation to the contrary, estab-
    13  lish  a uniform procedure authorizing municipalities, except cities with
    14  a population in excess of one million, which adopt a local law authoriz-
    15  ing the adoption of such uniform procedure, to grant a  building  permit
    16  in  cases  where a licensed professional engineer or a registered archi-
    17  tect in good standing certifies to the municipality  that  the  proposed
    18  construction is in conformance with the requirements of the uniform fire
    19  prevention  and  building  code;  provided, however, that such procedure
    20  shall allow a municipality to  accept  a  certification  by  a  licensed
    21  professional engineer or a registered architect in good standing only in
    22  cases  where the permit application is for alterations to existing resi-
    23  dential or commercial buildings, where such  alterations  do  not  alter
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  load  bearing walls, do not alter existing accessibility that is compli-
     2  ant with the federal Americans with Disabilities  Act,  meets  all  fire
     3  egress  requirements,  and  maintains  at  least the same fire rating as
     4  before the proposed construction.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.