Requires all new private, one-family and two-family home construction contracts to include a cost estimate for installation of a fire sprinkler system.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1645--C
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 15, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. BROOKS, BIAGGI, CARLUCCI, THOMAS -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Consumer Protection -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Consumer
Protection 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 general business law, in relation to requiring that
a homeowner be provided a cost estimate for installation of a fire
sprinkler system
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 759-a of the general business law, as added by
2 chapter 201 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 759-a. Disclosure of automatic fire sprinkler system information. A
4 builder of a one- or two-family residential dwelling having less than
5 three stories, prior to entering into a contract for construction of
6 such dwelling with a buyer, shall provide the buyer with a copy of writ-
7 ten materials prepared by the office of fire prevention and control
8 pursuant to subdivision twenty-one of section one hundred fifty-six of
9 the executive law, which details the benefits of and includes factors
10 that can affect the costs associated with the installation and mainte-
11 nance of an automatic fire sprinkler system. The builder shall further
12 provide an estimate of the cost for the installation of an automatic
13 fire sprinkler system in such dwelling. Upon request of the buyer, the
14 builder shall, at the buyer's expense, install an automatic fire sprin-
15 kler system in such one- or two-family residential dwelling having less
16 than three stories.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00381-09-9
S. 1645--C 2
1 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next
2 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law; provided,
3 however the amendments to section 759-a of the general business law made
4 by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such section
5 and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
