Bill Text: NY S06954 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires notice to be provided of a home heating system conversion.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-04-17 - SIGNED CHAP.62 [S06954 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06954-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6954

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 6, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. GAUGHRAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation  to  home  heating
          system conversion

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 778-aa of the general busi-
     2  ness law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the gener-
     3  al business law and the executive law relating to  home  heating  system
     4  conversion,  as  proposed  in legislative bills numbers S. 3360-A and A.
     5  6193-A, are amended to read as follows:
     6    3. Upon entering into an agreement for the conversion of  an  existing
     7  home  heating  system  from an oil home heating system to an alternative
     8  method of home heating, and prior to the commencement of  the  new  home
     9  heating  service,  [the  utility  company,  gas corporation, or electric
    10  corporation, as defined in section two of the public  service  law,  or]
    11  any  home  improvement  contractor installing the alternate home heating
    12  system[,] shall provide to the homeowner a written copy  of  the  notice
    13  created  by  the department of state pursuant to subdivision [four] five
    14  of this section, in no less than 14 point bold type and separate  [form]
    15  from any other document provided to such homeowner and provide as may be
    16  required  by state or local law, written notice of the agreement for the
    17  conversion of an existing home heating  system  to  the  municipal  code
    18  enforcement  official  having  authority  to  enforce the New York state
    19  uniform fire prevention and building code, or local code  applicable  to
    20  cities  with a population of one million or more, whichever code applies
    21  to the jurisdiction in which the home heating system is located.
    22    4. (a) Prior to the commencement of the new home heating service,  the
    23  property  owner  shall  provide  written notice to such property owner's
    24  heating oil supplier or suppliers to inform them of such  conversion  to

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04379-04-9

        S. 6954                             2

     1  an  alternate  fuel  prior  to  the commencement of the new home heating
     2  service.
     3    (b) The department of state shall have the authority to promulgate any
     4  rules  or  regulations  necessary  to  implement  the provisions of this
     5  subdivision.
     6    [4.] 5. The department of state shall create and make available to the
     7  public on the department's website a notice informing homeowners who are
     8  converting their existing oil home  heating  system  to  an  alternative
     9  method  of  home  heating  of  the provisions of subdivision thirteen of
    10  section three hundred seventy-eight of the executive law, in addition to
    11  any other state laws, rules, or  regulations  related  to  the  closure,
    12  abandonment,  and/or  removal  of  a heating oil storage tank, including
    13  fill and vent pipes and other  related  materials  and  equipment.  Such
    14  notice  shall  include  [a  requirement  that] information to inform the
    15  homeowner [must] that the homeowner shall provide written notice to  his
    16  or her home heating oil supplier to inform such supplier of such conver-
    17  sion  prior  to  the  commencement  of the new home heating service, and
    18  shall also advise the homeowner that  there  may  be  other  local  laws
    19  related to such conversion.
    20    §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    21  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the  general  business
    22  law and the executive law relating to home heating system conversion, as
    23  proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers S. 3360-A and A. 6193-A, takes
    24  effect.
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