Requires the state fire prevention and building code council to study and adopt uniform fire prevention and building code standards to promote fire safety and accessibility in single-exit, single stairway multi-unit residential buildings above 3 stories and up to at least 6 stories, based on a study of building codes existing in the city of New York and in other cities and jurisdictions that have adopted such buildings into their building codes.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6573
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 27, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. MAY -- 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 the state
fire prevention and building code council to study and adopt uniform
fire prevention and building code standards to promote fire safety and
accessibility in certain single-exit, single stairway multi-unit resi-
dential buildings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 19 of section 378 of the executive law, as
2 renumbered by chapter 47 of the laws of 2022, is renumbered subdivision
3 20 and a new subdivision 19 is added to read as follows:
4 19. Standard requirements for single-exit, single stairway multi-unit
5 residential buildings above three stories, up to at least six stories,
6 pursuant to the following:
7 a. The council shall conduct a study examining existing building codes
8 for single-exit, single stairway multi-unit residential buildings above
9 three stories, up to at least six stories, in the city of New York and
10 in other cities and jurisdictions that have adopted such buildings into
11 their building codes.
12 b. The council shall consider the effectiveness of the existing build-
13 ing codes examined pursuant to paragraph a of this subdivision, and any
14 improvements to such codes that would promote fire safety and accessi-
15 bility.
16 c. The council shall complete the study, and adopt the standard
17 requirements pursuant to this subdivision, no later than one year after
18 the effective date of this subdivision.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10895-02-3
