STATE OF NEW YORK
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3443
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 29, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, BIAGGI, JACKSON, KAVANAGH, SKOUFIS -- 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 requiring fire extin-
guishers in every multiple dwelling
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 378 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 5-e to read as follows:
3 5-e. Standards for installation of fire extinguishers shall require
4 installation of such extinguishers in all multiple dwellings at least
5 one per floor, with the maximum travel distance between extinguishers
6 not to exceed seventy-five feet. Such fire extinguishers shall be of
7 such manufacture, design and installation standards as are established
8 by the council. For purposes of this subdivision, multiple dwelling
9 means a dwelling which is either rented or leased to be occupied, or is
10 occupied as the temporary or permanent residence or home of three or
11 more families living independently of each other, including but not
12 limited to the following: a tenement, flat house, maisonette apartment,
13 apartment house, apartment hotel, tourist house, bachelor apartment,
14 studio apartment, duplex apartment, kitchenette apartment, hotel, lodg-
15 ing house, rooming house, boarding house, boarding and nursery school,
16 furnished room house, club, sorority house, fraternity house, college
17 and school dormitory, convalescent, old age or nursing homes or resi-
18 dences.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the
20 provisions of subdivision 5-e of section 378 of the executive law as
21 added by section one of this act shall not require compliance by owners
22 of multiple dwellings before two years after such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03137-02-1
