Bill Text: NY A09027 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 9027 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to requiring combustible gas detectors in certain structures.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-02 - print number 9027a [A09027 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09027-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         9027--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 19, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. RODRIGUEZ, RICHARDSON, O'DONNELL, COOK, BLAKE --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  ROBINSON,  SIMON  --  read  once  and
          referred  to  the  Committee  on  Governmental Operations -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring  combustible
          gas detectors in certain structures
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 378 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 17 to read as follows:
     3    17. a. (i) Standards for installation  of  combustible  gas  detectors
     4  requiring,  no  later than July first, two thousand seventeen that every
     5  one or two-family dwelling, or any dwelling accommodation located  in  a
     6  building  owned  as  a  condominium  or  cooperative in the state or any
     7  multiple dwellings shall have  installed  an  operable  combustible  gas
     8  detector  of  such manufacture, design and installation standards as are
     9  established by the council.
    10    (ii) Standards for the reporting of gas leaks reported  via  automatic
    11  transmission  to  a gas company by a gas detector by such gas companies.
    12  Provided, however, that such standards shall require a  gas  company  to
    13  issue  an  annual  report  detailing  the  number of leaks received in a
    14  calendar year disaggregated by county.
    15    b. For purposes of this subdivision, combustible gas detector means an
    16  alarm device that complies with the applicable standards of the American
    17  National Standards Institute, or its successors, for residential devices
    18  for the detection of  combustible  quantities  of  methane  and  propane
    19  gases,  unless  such  standards  are  superseded by rules adopted by the
    20  council.  Provided, however, that such devices shall further be equipped
    21  with technology enabling such devices to automatically report the occur-
    22  rence of each gas leak detected by such devices to the company providing
    23  gas to the dwelling in which such device is located.
    24    c. For purposes of this subdivision, multiple dwelling means a  dwell-
    25  ing which is either rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied, or
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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