Requires the owner, or responsible agent thereof, of a building with a capacity of 50 or more people to secure the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system and potable water supply system of such building so as to prevent unauthorized access to such systems.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4633
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 5, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring that
access to heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems and pota-
ble water supply systems be secure in certain buildings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 15-a to read as follows:
3 § 15-a. Secure access to heating, ventilation and air conditioning
4 systems and potable water supply systems. The owner of every building
5 having a capacity of fifty or more people, or the agent of such owner
6 having supervision over such a building, shall adopt and implement
7 procedures for securing and preventing access, by any person not specif-
8 ically so authorized, to the (i) heating, ventilation and air condition-
9 ing system, (ii) air intakes for the heating, ventilation and air condi-
10 tioning system, and (iii) potable water supply of such building. Such
11 procedures shall provide for the safety, health and welfare of all occu-
12 pants of the building, and protect such occupants from contaminated air
13 and water.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
15 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08446-01-5
