STATE OF NEW YORK
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1347
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 11, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to exempting hot tubs or
spas from certain standards of the New York state uniform fire
prevention and building code
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph c of subdivision 14 of section 378 of the execu-
2 tive law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the exec-
3 utive law relating to exempting hot tubs or spas with safety covers from
4 certain provisions of law, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
5 7858 and A. 8646, is amended to read as follows:
6 c. hot tub or spa with a safety cover which complies with American
7 Society of Testing and Materials International standard F1346 (2003) or
8 any similar standard which may be approved by the council [or] shall be
9 exempt from the provisions of this subdivision and any swimming pool,
10 other than a hot tub or spa, with an automatic power safety cover which
11 complies with American Society of Testing and Materials International
12 standard F1346 (2003) or any similar standard which may be approved by
13 the council shall be exempt from the provisions of paragraph b of this
14 subdivision.
15 § 2. Paragraph c of subdivision 14 of section 378 of the executive
16 law, as added by chapter 234 of the laws of 2007, is relettered para-
17 graph d.
18 § 3. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
19 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2022 amending the executive law
20 relating to exempting hot tubs or spas with safety covers from certain
21 provisions of law, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7858 and
22 A. 8646, takes effect.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03983-01-3
