Bill Text: NY A09181 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires electric space heaters to have thermostats, automatic shut-offs and be certified by a testing and certification body recognized and approved by the United States department of labor, occupational safety and health administration.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-10 - substituted by s7863a [A09181 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09181-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9181

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 9, 2022
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        Introduced by M. of A. BURGOS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the general business law, in relation to the sale of
          space heaters

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  391-jj to read as follows:
     3    § 391-jj. Sale of space heaters. No person, firm, partnership, associ-
     4  ation  or  corporation  shall distribute, sell or offer for sale in this
     5  state, or to any person located in this state,  a  space  heater  unless
     6  such space heater:
     7    1. includes a thermostat;
     8    2. includes an automatic shut-off; and
     9    3.  has  been certified by a testing and certification body recognized
    10  and approved by the United  States  department  of  labor,  occupational
    11  safety and health administration.
    12    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    13  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14319-02-2