Relates to subjecting owners who knew or should have known about an alteration in violation of the uniform code to a civil penalty; subjects owners to up to a seven thousand five hundred dollar penalty when the alteration to the building violated the uniform code and impeded a person's egress from the building during an evacuation.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1401
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 14, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Housing, Construction and
Community Development
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to subjecting owners who
knew or should have known about an alteration in violation of the
uniform code to a civil penalty
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 382 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 4. Where a building has been altered in violation of any provision of
4 the uniform code or any lawful order obtained thereunder, and such
5 alteration impedes a person's egress from such building during a fire or
6 other emergency evacuation, the owner of such building who has knowledge
7 of such alteration or should have had knowledge of such alteration shall
8 be subject to a civil penalty of up to seven thousand five hundred
9 dollars.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06465-01-9
