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

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8894
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     January 5, 2018
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        Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations
        AN  ACT  to amend the executive law, in relation to establish procedures
          authorizing certain municipalities  to  grant  building  permits  upon
          certification  by  a  licensed  professional  engineer or a registered
          architect for certain alterations to existing commercial 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 procedure authorizing municipalities in Nassau and Suffolk  coun-
    14  ties  to  grant a building permit in cases where a licensed professional
    15  engineer or a registered architect certifies to  the  municipality  that
    16  the proposed construction is in conformance with the requirements of the
    17  uniform  fire prevention and building code; provided, however, that such
    18  procedure shall allow a municipality to  accept  a  certification  by  a
    19  licensed  professional  engineer or a registered architect only in cases
    20  where the permit application is for alterations to existing  residential
    21  or  commercial buildings, where such alterations do not alter load bear-
    22  ing walls, do not alter existing accessibility that  is  compliant  with
    23  the  federal  Americans  with  Disabilities  Act,  meets all fire egress
    24  requirements, and maintains at least the same fire rating as before  the
    25  proposed construction.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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