Relates to training requirements for home inspector licensing and requires the secretary to establish rules and regulations pertaining to the number and manner of hours of required training needed to obtain a license.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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609--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 4, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. BOYLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the real property law, in relation to training require-
ments for home inspector licensing
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of
2 section 444-e of the real property law, as amended by section 59 of part
3 D of chapter 60 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
4 (i) have successfully completed a course of study of not less than
5 [one] two hundred [forty] hours approved by the secretary, of which at
6 least [forty] eighty hours shall have been in the form of unpaid field
7 based inspections in the presence of and under the direct supervision of
8 a home inspector licensed by the state of New York or a professional
9 engineer or architect regulated by the state of New York who oversees
10 and takes full responsibility for the inspection and any report provided
11 to a client; or
12 § 2. Section 444-l of the real property law, as amended by section 62
13 of part D of chapter 60 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as
14 follows:
15 § 444-l. Duties of the secretary. 1. The secretary shall establish
16 such rules and regulations as shall be necessary to implement the
17 provisions of this article.
18 2. The secretary shall establish rules and regulations pertaining to
19 the number and manner of hours of unpaid field-based training required
20 pursuant to subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of subdivision one of
21 section four hundred forty-four-e of this article.
22 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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