Bill Text: NY A09888 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that release mechanism standards be developed by the state fire prevention and building code council based on internationally recognized standards.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-04 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A09888 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09888-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         9888--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 26, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee  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 swimming  pool  enclo-
          sures

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 14 of section 378 of the  execu-
     2  tive  law,  as  separately amended by chapters 75 and 234 of the laws of
     3  2007, is amended to read as follows:
     4    a. (i) for gates installed prior to June first, two  thousand  twenty-
     5  five,  gates  required to be provided in a swimming pool enclosure shall
     6  be self-closing and self-latching [with the latch handle located  within
     7  the  enclosure  and  at  least  forty  inches above grade], and shall be
     8  securely locked with a key, combination or other child proof lock suffi-
     9  cient to prevent access to such swimming pool  through  such  gate  when
    10  such swimming pool is not in use or supervised;
    11    (ii)  for gates installed on or after June first, two thousand twenty-
    12  five, gates required to be provided in a swimming pool  enclosure  shall
    13  be  self-closing  and  self-latching and shall be securely locked with a
    14  key, combination or other child proof lock sufficient to prevent  access
    15  to  such  swimming pool through such gate when such swimming pool is not
    16  in use or supervised. Where the release mechanism  of  the  self-closing
    17  and  self-latching  gate  is  located  less than fifty-four inches above
    18  grade, the release mechanism shall be located  within  the  enclosure  a
    19  minimum  of  three  inches  below  the  top of the gate and the gate and
    20  enclosure shall have no opening greater than one-half inch within  eigh-
    21  teen  inches  of  the  release  mechanism  when the gate is in the fully
    22  closed position;
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13322-04-4