Requires electric space heaters to have thermostats, automatic shut-offs and be certified by a testing and certification body recognized and approved by the United States department of labor, occupational safety and health administration.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9181--B
Cal. No. 559
IN ASSEMBLY
February 9, 2022
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Introduced by M. of A. BURGOS, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, PAULIN, JACKSON, FORREST,
J. RIVERA, DICKENS, CRUZ, GUNTHER, FRONTUS, COLTON, ZINERMAN, SIMON,
JACOBSON, O'DONNELL, GIBBS, GOTTFRIED, GLICK, DAVILA, JEAN-PIERRE,
OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs
and Protection -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported
from committee, advanced to a third reading, amended and ordered
reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the sale of
electric space heaters
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
2 391-jj to read as follows:
3 § 391-jj. Sale of electric space heaters. No person, firm, partner-
4 ship, association or corporation regularly engaged in the business of
5 assembling, manufacturing, distributing or the retail sale of electric
6 space heaters shall assemble, manufacture, distribute, sell or offer to
7 sell any electric space heater in the normal course of business in this
8 state unless such electric space heater:
9 1. includes a thermostat;
10 2. includes an automatic shut-off; and
11 3. has been certified by a testing and certification body recognized
12 and approved by the United States department of labor, occupational
13 safety and health administration.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
15 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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