Directs the state fire prevention and building code council to update the state fire prevention and building code and the state energy conservation construction code within 18 months of the publication of any updated or revised edition of the international and national codes relating thereto, so as to ensure that the state's codes reflect such revisions and updates.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6210--B
Cal. No. 339
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 15, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, 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 --
reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
report, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to
the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading,
amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of
third reading
AN ACT to amend the executive law and the energy law, in relation to
requiring the updating of the state uniform fire prevention and build-
ing code and the state energy conservation construction code on the
basis of update of certain international codes
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 377 of the executive law is renum-
2 bered subdivision 3 and a new subdivision 2 is added to read as follows:
3 2. Each time a revised or updated edition of the International Build-
4 ing Code, the International Fire Code, the International Residential
5 Code, the International Plumbing Code, the International Mechanical
6 Code, the International Fuel Gas Code, the International Existing Build-
7 ing Code, the International Property Maintenance Code or the National
8 Electrical Code is published, the council shall, eighteen months after
9 publication of a revised or updated edition, cause the uniform fire
10 prevention and building code to be updated to reflect changes in any
11 such revised or updated edition. To the extent that the uniform fire
12 prevention and building code has not been updated to reflect changes in
13 any such revised or updated edition as of the effective date of this
14 subdivision, the council shall, as soon as practicable and no later than
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 eighteen months after the effective date of this subdivision, cause the
2 uniform fire prevention and building code to be updated to reflect such
3 changes.
4 § 2. Section 11-101 of the energy law, as amended by chapter 516 of
5 the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
6 § 11-101. Purpose. In furtherance of the [policy] policies set forth
7 in subdivision two of section 3-101 of this chapter and in chapter one
8 hundred six of the laws of two thousand nineteen enacting the New York
9 state climate leadership and community protection act, the legislature
10 hereby directs that a state energy conservation construction code be
11 adopted to protect the health, safety and security of the people of the
12 state and to assure a continuing supply of energy for future generations
13 and that such code mandate that [economically] reasonable energy conser-
14 vation techniques be used in the design and construction of all public
15 and private buildings in the state.
16 § 3. Subdivision 2 of section 11-103 of the energy law, as amended by
17 chapter 560 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
18 2. (a) The state fire prevention and building code council is author-
19 ized, from time to time as it deems appropriate and consistent with the
20 purposes of this article, to review and amend the code, or adopt a new
21 code, through rules and regulations [provided that the code remains cost
22 effective with respect to building construction in the state. In deter-
23 mining whether the code remains cost effective, the code council shall
24 consider whether the cost of materials and their installation to meet
25 its standards would be equal to or less than the present value of energy
26 savings that could be expected over a ten year period in the building in
27 which such materials are installed]. For residential buildings, the code
28 shall meet or exceed the then most recently published International
29 Energy Conservation Code, or achieve equivalent or greater energy
30 savings; and for commercial buildings, the code shall meet or exceed
31 [ASHRAE 90.1-2007] the then most recently published ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA
32 Standard 90.1, or achieve equivalent or greater energy savings.
33 (b) The state fire prevention and building code council shall, as soon
34 as practicable and no later than eighteen months after the publication
35 of each revised or updated edition of the International Energy Conserva-
36 tion Code or the ANSI/ASHRAE/IESNA Standard 90.1, cause the state energy
37 conservation construction code to be updated to reflect changes in any
38 such revised or updated edition. To the extent that the state energy
39 conservation construction code has not been updated to reflect changes
40 in any such revised or updated edition as of the effective date of this
41 paragraph, the council shall, as soon as practicable and no later than
42 eighteen months after the effective date of this paragraph, cause the
43 state energy conservation construction code to be updated to reflect
44 such changes.
45 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
