Assembly Bill A3819

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires landlords to provide fire extinguishers in all rented apartments

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A3819 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §378, Exec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A7767
2019-2020: A1666
2023-2024: A1172

2021-A3819 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires landlords to provide fire extinguishers in all rented apartments; authorizes the promulgation of standards related thereto.

2021-A3819 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3819
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring fire  extin-
   guishers in every rented dwelling
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 378 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 5-e to read as follows:
   5-E. STANDARDS FOR INSTALLATION OF FIRE EXTINGUISHERS  REQUIRING  THAT
 EVERY  LIVING  UNIT NOT OCCUPIED BY THE OWNER OF SUCH LIVING UNIT, WHICH
 SHALL INCLUDE BUT NOT BE LIMITED  TO,  A  TWO-FAMILY  DWELLING,  OR  ANY
 DWELLING  ACCOMMODATION  LOCATED IN A BUILDING OWNED AS A CONDOMINIUM OR
 COOPERATIVE IN THE STATE OR ANY MULTIPLE DWELLINGS SHALL HAVE  INSTALLED
 AN  OPERABLE FIRE EXTINGUISHER OF SUCH MANUFACTURE, DESIGN AND INSTALLA-
 TION STANDARDS AS ARE ESTABLISHED BY THE COUNCIL. FOR PURPOSES  OF  THIS
 SUBDIVISION,  MULTIPLE  DWELLING MEANS A DWELLING WHICH IS EITHER RENTED
 OR LEASED TO BE OCCUPIED, 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 APARTMENT, APARTMENT HOUSE, APARTMENT  HOTEL,  TOURIST
 HOUSE,  BACHELOR APARTMENT, STUDIO APARTMENT, DUPLEX APARTMENT, KITCHEN-
 ETTE APARTMENT, HOTEL, LODGING HOUSE,  ROOMING  HOUSE,  BOARDING  HOUSE,
 BOARDING AND NURSERY SCHOOL, FURNISHED ROOM HOUSE, CLUB, SORORITY HOUSE,
 FRATERNITY HOUSE, COLLEGE AND SCHOOL DORMITORY, CONVALESCENT, OLD AGE OR
 NURSING HOMES OR RESIDENCES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03137-01-1

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