Requires health clubs with a membership of 50 or more to have at least 1 automated external defibrillator on the premises which is accessible to the staff, members and guests.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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11110
IN ASSEMBLY
June 5, 2018
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Wallace) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the requirement
that certain health clubs shall have at least one automated external
defibrillator available upon the premises
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 627-a of the general business law,
2 as amended by chapter 31 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. Every health club as defined under paragraph b of subdivision one
5 of section three thousand-d of the public health law whose membership is
6 [five hundred] fifty persons or more shall have available on the prem-
7 ises in a manner that provides obvious and ready accessibility to staff,
8 members and guests at least one automated external defibrillator and
9 shall have in attendance, at all times during staffed business hours, at
10 least one individual performing employment or individual acting as an
11 authorized volunteer who holds a valid certification of completion of a
12 course in the study of the operation of AEDs and a valid certification
13 of the completion of a course in the training of cardiopulmonary resus-
14 citation provided by a nationally recognized organization or associ-
15 ation.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
17 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11751-02-7
