Assembly Bill A519

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the installation of smoke detectors in residential buildings with common spaces shared between three or more dwelling units

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2025-A519 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S749
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §378, Exec L; amd §2, Chap of 2024 (as proposed in S.3249-B & A.5730-B)

2025-A519 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the installation of smoke detectors in residential buildings with common spaces shared between three or more dwelling units and that such smoke detectors can be heard in such common spaces.

2025-A519 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    519
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ZACCARO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring  that  resi-
   dential  buildings  with  common  spaces  shared between three or more
   dwelling units have installed a smoke detector which  can  be  clearly
   heard  in  such  common  spaces, and to amend a chapter of the laws of
   2024 amending the executive law relating to requiring the installation
   of smoke detectors in common places of certain dwellings, as  proposed
   in  legislative bills numbers S. 3249-B and A.  5730-B, in relation to
   the effectiveness thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. The subdivision heading and paragraph c of subdivision 5-b
 of section 378 of the executive law, as amended by a chapter of the laws
 of 2024 amending the executive law relating to requiring  the  installa-
 tion  of  smoke  detectors  in  common  places  of certain dwellings, as
 proposed in legislative bills numbers  S.  3249-B  and  A.  5730-B,  are
 amended to read as follows:
   Standards  for  installation of [single station] smoke detecting alarm
 devices requiring that:
   c. every [multiple-family dwelling, except for  a  property  owned  or
 operated  by  a  public  housing authority subject to federal safety and
 inspection standards pursuant to title twenty-four of the code of feder-
 al regulations, and every dwelling accommodation located in  a  building
 owned as a condominium or cooperative in the state used as a residence,]
 RESIDENTIAL BUILDING WITH A COMMON SPACE OR COMMON SPACES SHARED BETWEEN
 THREE  OR  MORE  DWELLING UNITS shall have installed an operable [single
 station] smoke detecting alarm device [or], devices  [in  an  area  so],
 SYSTEM  OR SYSTEMS SUCH that [it] AN ALARM NOTIFICATION is clearly audi-
 ble in each common space, with rules to be promulgated by the council IN
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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