Senate Bill S654

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires that carbon monoxide detectors be installed in all SUNY dormitories

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Housing, Construction And Community Development Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S654 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Housing, Construction And Community Development
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §378, Exec L; add §215-e, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
S4059

2015-S654 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that carbon monoxide detectors be installed in all SUNY dormitories.

2015-S654 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S654 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                   654

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- 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 and the education law, in relation to
  requiring carbon monoxide detectors in all SUNY dormitories

  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. Standards for installation of carbon monoxide detectors requiring
that  every  one  or  two-family dwelling, or any dwelling accommodation
located in a building owned as a condominium or cooperative in the state
or any multiple dwellings shall have installed an operable carbon monox-
ide detector of such manufacture, design and installation  standards  as
are  established  by  the council. Carbon monoxide detectors required by
this section are required: (A) only where the dwelling unit  has  appli-
ances,  devices  or  systems  that  may  emit  carbon monoxide or has an
attached garage; AND (B) IN EVERY ROOM USED FOR SLEEPING PURPOSES  IN  A
BUILDING  OWNED  OR  USED  BY  ANY SCHOOL, COLLEGE, OR UNIVERSITY OF THE
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK.  For purposes of this subdivision,  multi-
ple  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, old age or

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

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