NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A8495
SPONSOR: Giglio JA TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the education law, in relation to requiring professional
engineers, land surveyors and professional geologists to report struc-
tural faults within forty-eight hours
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
Requires professional engineers, land surveyors and professional geolo-
gists to report structural faults within forty-eight hours.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Section 7209 of the education law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 10 states that every professional engineer, land surveyor
and professional geologist who finds a structural defect, fault or other
issue with any type of structure shall report it to the county, town or
village or other political subdivision with forty-eight hours of discov-
ering the issue.
JUSTIFICATION:
This bill is to ensure that structural faults are reported before a
structure or land area is developed. It is for the safety of the public
and the business building or developing on the land.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have
become a law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8495
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
November 17, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. J. A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring professional
engineers, land surveyors and professional geologists to report struc-
tural faults within forty-eight hours
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 7209 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
3 10. Every professional engineer, land surveyor and professional geolo-
4 gist who finds a structural defect, fault, or other issue with any type
5 of structure shall report such issue to the county, city, town, village
6 and/or other political subdivision in which such structure is located
7 within forty-eight hours of discovering such issue.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
9 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11943-01-1
