Bill Text: NY S04323 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4323 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Enacts the school buildings carbon monoxide act requiring the building code to include standards for the installation of operable carbon monoxide detectors in every elementary and secondary school building within the state wherein the use of heating or other equipment poses a substantial risk of exposure to carbon monoxide.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-24 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S04323 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04323-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
       ________________________________________________________________________
                                         4323
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 13, 2015
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction  and
         Community Development
       AN  ACT  to amend the executive law, in relation to enacting the "school
         buildings carbon monoxide act"
         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.  STANDARDS FOR THE INSTALLATION OF OPERABLE CARBON MONOXIDE DETEC-
    4  TORS IN EVERY ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL BUILDING WITHIN THE  STATE
    5  WHEREIN  THE  USE OF HEATING OR OTHER EQUIPMENT POSES A SUBSTANTIAL RISK
    6  OF EXPOSURE TO CARBON MONOXIDE.
    7    A. SUCH REGULATIONS  SHALL  PROVIDE  THAT:  (I)  ANY  CARBON  MONOXIDE
    8  DETECTION EQUIPMENT INSTALLED SHALL BE LISTED BY A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED
    9  TESTING  LABORATORY  AS MEETING OR EXCEEDING AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS
   10  INSTITUTE/UNDERWRITERS LABORATORIES (ANSI/UL) STANDARD 2075  OR  ANSI/UL
   11  STANDARD  2034;  AND  (II)  CARBON MONOXIDE DETECTION EQUIPMENT SHALL BE
   12  INSTALLED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE MANUFACTURER'S INSTRUCTIONS AND INSTAL-
   13  LATION REQUIREMENTS OF NATIONAL  FIRE  PROTECTION  ASSOCIATION  STANDARD
   14  720, 2012 EDITION.
   15    B.  FOR  ANY SCHOOL BUILDING FOR WHICH A PERMIT FOR NEW OCCUPANCY OR A
   16  PERMIT FOR RENOVATION IS ISSUED ON OR AFTER JANUARY FIRST, TWO  THOUSAND
   17  SEVENTEEN,  SUCH  REGULATIONS SHALL (I) PROHIBIT THE INSTALLATION OF ANY
   18  BATTERY-OPERATED CARBON MONOXIDE  DETECTION  EQUIPMENT  OR  ANY  PLUG-IN
   19  CARBON  MONOXIDE  WARNING  EQUIPMENT  THAT  HAS A BATTERY AS ITS BACK-UP
   20  POWER SOURCE; AND (II) REQUIRE THAT A  SIGNAL  FROM  A  CARBON  MONOXIDE
   21  DETECTOR  SHALL  BE AUTOMATICALLY TRANSMITTED TO AN APPROVED SUPERVISING
   22  STATION OR CONSTANTLY ATTENDED ON-SITE LOCATION.
   23    S 2. This act shall take effect January 1, 2016.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD03450-01-5