STATE OF NEW YORK
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1218--B
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 10, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, BAILEY, MANNION -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing,
Construction and Community Development -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee -- recommitted to the Committee on Housing, Construction and
Community Development in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the appointment for
agricultural representation on the state fire prevention and building
code council
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 374 of the executive law, as added
2 by chapter 707 of the laws of 1981, the opening paragraph as amended by
3 chapter 309 of the laws of 1996, paragraph a as amended by chapter 374
4 of the laws of 2022, and subdivision c as amended by chapter 920 of the
5 laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
6 1. There is hereby created and established in the department of state
7 a council, to be known as the state fire prevention and building code
8 council. Such council shall consist of the secretary of state, as chair-
9 man, the state fire administrator and [fifteen] sixteen other members to
10 be appointed as follows:
11 a. Two members, to be appointed by the governor, from among the
12 commissioners of the departments of economic development, environmental
13 conservation, corrections and community supervision, education, health,
14 labor, mental health and social services, office of general services,
15 division of housing and community renewal, the president of the New York
16 state energy research and development authority, and the superintendent
17 of financial services.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 b. Six members, to be appointed by the governor, one of whom shall be
2 an elected official of a city with a population over one million, one of
3 whom shall be an elected official of another city with a population over
4 one hundred thousand, one of whom shall be an elected official of any
5 other city, one of whom shall be an elected county official, one of whom
6 shall be an elected town official, and one of whom shall be an elected
7 village official.
8 c. [Seven] Eight members, to be appointed by the governor with the
9 advice and consent of the senate, one of whom shall be a fire service
10 official, one of whom shall be a registered architect, one of whom shall
11 be a professional engineer, one of whom shall be a code enforcement
12 official, one of whom shall represent builders, one of whom shall repre-
13 sent trade unions, one of whom shall represent agricultural producers,
14 and one of whom shall be a person with a disability as defined in
15 section two hundred ninety-two of this chapter who would directly bene-
16 fit from the provisions of article thirteen of the state uniform fire
17 prevention and building code. The registered architect and professional
18 engineer shall be duly licensed to practice their respective professions
19 in the state of New York. After the certification of code enforcement
20 personnel pursuant to this chapter shall have begun said code enforce-
21 ment official shall be so certified.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
