Directs the state fire prevention and building code council to update the state fire prevention and building code and the state energy conservation construction code within 18 months of the publication of any updated or revised edition of the international and national codes relating thereto, so as to ensure that the state's codes reflect such revisions and updates.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3559--B
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER, PEOPLES-STOKES, WALLACE, GRIFFIN, GALEF,
JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental
Operations -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the
Committee on Governmental Operations in accordance with Assembly Rule
3, sec. 2 -- again reported from said committee with amendments,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the executive law and the energy law, in relation to
requiring the updating of the state uniform fire prevention and build-
ing code and the state energy conservation construction code on the
basis of update of certain international codes
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 377 of the executive law is renum-
2 bered subdivision 3 and a new subdivision 2 is added to read as follows:
3 2. Each time a revised or updated edition of the International Build-
4 ing Code, the International Fire Code, the International Residential
5 Code, the International Plumbing Code, the International Mechanical
6 Code, the International Fuel Gas Code, the International Existing Build-
7 ing Code, the International Property Maintenance Code or the National
8 Electrical Code is published, the council shall, eighteen months after
9 publication of a revised or updated edition, cause the uniform fire
10 prevention and building code to be updated to reflect changes in any
11 such revised or updated edition. To the extent that the uniform fire
12 prevention and building code has not been updated to reflect changes in
13 any such revised or updated edition as of the effective date of this
14 subdivision, the council shall, as soon as practicable and no later than
15 eighteen months after the effective date of this subdivision, cause the
16 uniform fire prevention and building code to be updated to reflect such
17 changes.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 2. Section 11-101 of the energy law, as amended by chapter 516 of
2 the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 11-101. Purpose. In furtherance of the [policy] policies set forth
4 in subdivision two of section 3-101 of this chapter and in chapter one
5 hundred six of the laws of two thousand nineteen enacting the New York
6 state climate leadership and community protection act, the legislature
7 hereby directs that a state energy conservation construction code be
8 adopted to protect the health, safety and security of the people of the
9 state and to assure a continuing supply of energy for future generations
10 and that such code mandate that [economically] reasonable energy conser-
11 vation techniques be used in the design and construction of all public
12 and private buildings in the state.
13 § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 11-103 of the energy law, as amended by
14 chapter 560 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
15 2. (a) The state fire prevention and building code council is author-
16 ized, from time to time as it deems appropriate and consistent with the
17 purposes of this article, to review and amend the code, or adopt a new
18 code, through rules and regulations [provided that the code remains cost
19 effective with respect to building construction in the state. In deter-
20 mining whether the code remains cost effective, the code council shall
21 consider whether the cost of materials and their installation to meet
22 its standards would be equal to or less than the present value of energy
23 savings that could be expected over a ten year period in the building in
24 which such materials are installed]. For residential buildings, the code
25 shall meet or exceed the then most recently published International
26 Energy Conservation Code, or achieve equivalent or greater energy
27 savings; and for commercial buildings, the code shall meet or exceed
28 [ASHRAE 90.1-2007] the then most recently published ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA
29 Standard 90.1, or achieve equivalent or greater energy savings.
30 (b) The state fire prevention and building code council shall, as soon
31 as practicable and no later than eighteen months after the publication
32 of each revised or updated edition of the International Energy Conserva-
33 tion Code or the ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1, cause the state energy
34 conservation construction code to be updated to reflect changes in any
35 such revised or updated edition. To the extent that the state energy
36 conservation construction code has not been updated to reflect changes
37 in any such revised or updated edition as of the effective date of this
38 paragraph, the council shall, as soon as practicable and no later than
39 eighteen months after the effective date of this paragraph, cause the
40 state energy conservation construction code to be updated to reflect
41 such changes.
42 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
