Bill Text: NY S01383 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires all new private, one-family and two-family home construction contracts to include a cost estimate for installation of a fire sprinkler system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-11-03 - APPROVAL MEMO.31 [S01383 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01383-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1383

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 11, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  BROOKS,  BIAGGI, THOMAS -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer
          Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring  that
          a  homeowner  be  provided  a cost estimate for installation of a fire
          sprinkler system

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  759-a  of  the general business law, as added by
     2  chapter 201 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 759-a. Disclosure of automatic fire sprinkler system information.  A
     4  builder  of  a  one- or two-family residential dwelling having less than
     5  three stories, prior to entering into a  contract  for  construction  of
     6  such dwelling with a buyer, shall provide the buyer with a copy of writ-
     7  ten  materials  prepared  by  the  office of fire prevention and control
     8  pursuant to subdivision twenty-one of section one hundred  fifty-six  of
     9  the  executive  law,  which details the benefits of and includes factors
    10  that can affect the costs associated with the installation  and  mainte-
    11  nance  of an automatic fire sprinkler system.  The builder shall further
    12  provide an estimate of the cost for the  installation  of  an  automatic
    13  fire  sprinkler  system in such dwelling. Upon request of the buyer, the
    14  builder shall, at the buyer's expense, install an automatic fire  sprin-
    15  kler  system in such one- or two-family residential dwelling having less
    16  than three stories.
    17    § 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
    18  succeeding  the  date  on  which  it  shall have become a law; provided,
    19  however the amendments to section 759-a of the general business law made
    20  by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of  such  section
    21  and shall be deemed repealed therewith.

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