Requires the state uniform fire prevention and building code to include standards requiring the installation of an operable carbon monoxide detector in restaurants constructed or sold after December 1, 2011.

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A5887-2011 Actions

• Jan 4, 2012: referred to governmental operations
• Mar 2, 2011: referred to governmental operations

A5887-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                    5887

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                                March 2, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  M. of A. McLAUGHLIN, CASTRO -- read once and referred to
    the Committee on Governmental Operations

  AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the state uniform fire
    prevention and building code standards for the installation of  carbon
    monoxide detectors in restaurants

    THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section 1. Subdivision 5-a of section 378 of  the  executive  law,  as
  amended  by  chapter  367  of  the  laws  of 2009, is amended to read as
  follows:

    5-a. A.  Standards  for  installation  of  carbon  monoxide  detectors
  requiring  that every one or two-family dwelling, or any dwelling accom-
  modation located in a building owned as a condominium or cooperative  in
  the state [or], any multiple dwellings, OR ANY RESTAURANT CONSTRUCTED OR
  OFFERED  FOR  SALE  AFTER DECEMBER FIRST, TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN shall have
  installed an operable carbon  monoxide  detector  of  such  manufacture,
  design  and  installation  standards  as are established by the council.
  Carbon monoxide detectors required by  this  [section]  SUBDIVISION  are
  required  only  where  the  dwelling  unit OR RESTAURANT has appliances,
  devices or systems that may emit carbon  monoxide  or  has  an  attached
  garage.
    B. (I) For purposes of this subdivision, [multiple dwelling] "MULTIPLE
  DWELLING"  means a dwelling which is either rented, leased, let or hired
  out, to be occupied[,] or is occupied  as  the  temporary  or  permanent
  residence or home of three or more families living independently of each
  other,  including  but  not  limited  to the following: a tenement, flat
  house, maisonette apartment, apartment house, apartment  hotel,  tourist
  house,  bachelor apartment, studio apartment, duplex apartment, kitchen-
  ette apartment, hotel, lodging house,  rooming  house,  boarding  house,
  boarding and nursery school, furnished room house, club, sorority house,
  fraternity  house,  college  and school dormitory, convalescent, AND old

   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD08987-01-1

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  age or nursing homes or residences. It shall also  include  a  dwelling,
  two  or  more stories in height, and with five or more boarders, roomers
  or lodgers residing with any one family. [New construction]
    (II)  FOR  THE  PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "NEW CONSTRUCTION" shall
  mean a new facility or a separate building added to an existing  facili-
  ty.
    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.