Requires landlords of non-owner occupied, one-six family dwellings in the city of New York to provide fire extinguishers in all rented apartments; authorizes the promulgation of standards related thereto.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9441
IN SENATE
March 12, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. CHAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and
Community Development
AN ACT to amend the multiple dwelling law, in relation to requiring fire
extinguishers in certain rented dwellings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The multiple dwelling law is amended by adding a new
2 section 69 to read as follows:
3 § 69. Fire extinguishers required in certain dwellings. In a city with
4 a population of one million or more, standards for installation of fire
5 extinguishers requiring that every living unit not occupied by the owner
6 of such living unit, which shall include but not be limited to, a one-
7 six family dwelling, or any dwelling accommodation located in a building
8 owned as a condominium or cooperative in the state or any multiple
9 dwellings shall have installed an operable fire extinguisher of such
10 manufacture, design and installation standards as are established by the
11 state fire prevention and building code council. For purposes of this
12 section, multiple dwelling means a dwelling which is either rented or
13 leased to be occupied, or is occupied as the temporary or permanent
14 residence or home of one or more families living independently of each
15 other, including but not limited to the following: a tenement, flat
16 house, maisonette apartment, apartment house, apartment hotel, tourist
17 house, bachelor apartment, studio apartment, duplex apartment, kitchen-
18 ette apartment, hotel, lodging house, rooming house, boarding house,
19 boarding and nursery school, furnished room house, club, sorority house,
20 fraternity house, college and school dormitory, convalescent, old age or
21 nursing homes or residences.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
23 ing the date on which 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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