Requires the New York state uniform fire prevention and building code to address standards for the installation of carbon monoxide detectors in restaurants and other commercial buildings; requires the installation of carbon monoxide detectors in restaurants and other commercial buildings.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6657--C
IN SENATE
February 24, 2014
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Introduced by Sens. MARCELLINO, AVELLA, BOYLE, FELDER, HASSELL-THOMPSON,
HOYLMAN, LAVALLE, MARTINS, PERKINS, SAMPSON, STAVISKY -- read twice
and ordered printed, 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 committee -- 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
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the New York
state uniform fire prevention and building code to address standards
for the installation and maintenance of carbon monoxide detectors in
restaurants and other commercial buildings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Steven
2 Nelson's law".
3 § 2. Section 378 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
4 subdivision 5-d to read as follows:
5 5-d. Standards for installation of carbon monoxide detecting devices
6 requiring that the owner of every building that contains one or more
7 restaurants and the owner of every commercial building in the state
8 shall have installed in such building and shall maintain operable carbon
9 monoxide detecting device or devices of such manufacture, design and
10 installation standards as are established by the council. Carbon monox-
11 ide detecting devices shall only be required if the restaurant or
12 commercial building has appliances, devices or systems that may emit
13 carbon monoxide or has an attached garage.
14 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
15 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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