STATE OF NEW YORK
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5797
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 20, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the instal-
lation of automatic sprinkler systems and emergency fire escapes in
certain multi-family dwellings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 378 of the executive law is amended by adding two
2 new subdivisions 5-e and 5-f to read as follows:
3 5-e. Standards for installation of automatic sprinkler systems requir-
4 ing that the owner of every multi-family dwelling with a height over two
5 stories, regardless of age or historic designation of the dwelling,
6 shall have installed in such dwelling an automatic fire suppression
7 system on each floor level of such dwelling in which people reside.
8 5-f. Standards for installation of emergency fire escapes requiring
9 that the owner of every multi-family dwelling with a height over two
10 stories, regardless of the age or historic designation of the dwelling,
11 shall have installed in such dwelling an emergency fire escape on each
12 floor level of such dwelling, excluding the first floor level. For the
13 purposes of this subdivision, the term "emergency fire escape" may
14 include an exterior stairway, a standard fire escape, a roll out emer-
15 gency ladder, or any other apparatus the council deems appropriate.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04403-01-5
