Bill Text: NY S02813 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the installation of fire extinguishers in all multiple dwellings.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-12 - referred to governmental operations [S02813 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S02813-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2813--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 29, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, KAVANAGH, SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development -- recommitted to the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring fire extin- guishers in every multiple dwelling 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 5-e to read as follows: 3 5-e. Standards for installation of fire extinguishers shall require 4 installation of such extinguishers in all multiple dwellings at least 5 one per floor, with the maximum travel distance between extinguishers 6 not to exceed seventy-five feet. Such fire extinguishers shall be of 7 such manufacture, design and installation standards as are established 8 by the council. For purposes of this subdivision, multiple dwelling 9 means a dwelling which is either rented or leased to be occupied, or is 10 occupied as the temporary or permanent residence or home of three or 11 more families living independently of each other, including but not 12 limited to the following: a tenement, flat house, maisonette apartment, 13 apartment house, apartment hotel, tourist house, bachelor apartment, 14 studio apartment, duplex apartment, kitchenette apartment, hotel, lodg- 15 ing house, rooming house, boarding house, boarding and nursery school, 16 furnished room house, club, sorority house, fraternity house, college 17 and school dormitory, convalescent, old age or nursing homes or resi- 18 dences. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the 20 provisions of subdivision 5-e of section 378 of the executive law as 21 added by section one of this act shall not require compliance by owners 22 of multiple dwellings before two years after such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00853-06-0