Provides that in addition to any other applicable remedy or penalty, where a building has been altered in violation of any provision of the uniform code or any lawful order obtained thereunder, and such alteration impedes a person's egress from such building during a fire or other emergency evacuation, the owner of such building, and any builder, architect, contractor, subcontractor or construction superintendent, or agent thereof who has knowledge of such alteration, or an owner who reasonably should have had knowledge of such alteration based on either an inspection or repair of a leased premises with consent from the tenant, shall be subject to a civil penalty of up to seven thousand five hundred dollars.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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964
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to violations of the
uniform fire prevention and building code
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 382 of the executive law, as added
2 by a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending the executive law relating to
3 violations of the uniform fire prevention and building code, as proposed
4 in legislative bills numbers S. 1714 and A. 3343, is amended to read as
5 follows:
6 4. [Where] In addition to any other applicable remedy or penalty,
7 where a building has been altered in violation of any provision of the
8 uniform code or any lawful order obtained thereunder, and such alter-
9 ation impedes a person's egress from such building during a fire or
10 other emergency evacuation, the owner of such building, and any builder,
11 architect, contractor, subcontractor or construction superintendent, or
12 agent thereof who has knowledge of such alteration, or owner who reason-
13 ably should have had knowledge of such alteration based on either an
14 inspection or repair of a leased premises with consent from the tenant,
15 shall be subject to a civil penalty of up to seven thousand five hundred
16 dollars.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
18 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2020 amending the executive law
19 relating to violations of the uniform fire prevention and building code,
20 as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 1714 and A. 3343, takes
21 effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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