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Senate Bill S2790

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires every certain family dwellings and dwelling accommodations to have carbon monoxide detectors

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2009-S2790 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6096
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง378, Exec L

2009-S2790 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires one and two family dwellings and dwelling accommodations located in a building owned as a condominium or cooperative in the state to have carbon monoxide detectors.

2009-S2790 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S2790 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2790

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              March 3, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  STACHOWSKI  -- 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  requiring  every
  certain  family  dwellings  and dwelling accommodations to have carbon
  monoxide detectors

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.    Subdivision 5-a of section 378 of the executive law, as
amended by chapter 202 of the laws  of  2006,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  5-a. Standards for installation of carbon monoxide detectors requiring
that  every  one or two-family dwelling [constructed or offered for sale
after July thirtieth, two thousand two], OR any  dwelling  accommodation
located in a building owned as a condominium or cooperative in the state
[constructed or offered for sale after July thirtieth, two thousand two,
or  any  multiple dwellings constructed or offered for sale after August
ninth, two thousand five] shall have installed an operable carbon monox-
ide detector of such manufacture, design and installation  standards  as
are  established  by  the council. Carbon monoxide detectors required by
this section are required only where the dwelling unit  has  appliances,
devices  or  systems  that  may  emit carbon monoxide or has an attached
garage. For purposes of this  subdivision,  multiple  dwelling  means  a
dwelling  which  is either rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occu-
pied, or is occupied as the temporary or permanent residence or home  of
three or more families living independently of each other, including but
not  limited to the following: a tenement, flat house, maisonette apart-
ment, apartment house, apartment hotel, tourist house,  bachelor  apart-
ment,  studio apartment, duplex apartment, kitchenette apartment, hotel,
lodging house, rooming  house,  boarding  house,  boarding  and  nursery
school,  furnished  room  house, club, sorority house, fraternity house,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07712-02-9

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