File #: Int 0562-2018    Version: Name: Posting of hurricane evacuation zone and evacuation center information in multiple dwellings.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Fire and Emergency Management
On agenda: 2/14/2018
Enactment date: 6/8/2019 Law number: 2019/103
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city fire code, in relation to the posting of hurricane evacuation zone and evacuation center information in multiple dwellings
Sponsors: Mark Treyger, Helen K. Rosenthal, Ben Kallos, Costa G. Constantinides, Margaret S. Chin, Chaim M. Deutsch, Diana I. Ayala, Mathieu Eugene
Council Member Sponsors: 8
Summary: This bill would require the owners of multiple dwellings (Group R-2 occupancy) to post notice in a common area, or in additional areas as required by the Fire Commissioner, stating the relevant hurricane evacuation zone number for that building and providing information on the presence of evacuation centers.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 562-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 562, 3. Int. No. 562, 4. February 14, 2018 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 02-14-2018, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 14, 2018, 7. Committee Report 10/15/18, 8. Hearing Testimony 10/15/18, 9. Hearing Transcript 10/15/18, 10. Proposed Int. No. 562-A - 5/9/19, 11. Committee Report 5/8/19, 12. Hearing Transcript 5/8/19, 13. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 14. May 8, 2019 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-8-19, 16. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - May 8, 2019, 17. Int. No. 562-A (FINAL), 18. Fiscal Impact Statement, 19. Legislative Documents - Letter to the Mayor, 20. Local Law 103
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Int. No. 562-A

 

By Council Members Treyger, Rosenthal, Kallos, Constantinides, Chin, Deutsch, Ayala and Eugene

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city fire code, in relation to the posting of hurricane evacuation zone and evacuation center information in multiple dwellings

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:                     

Section 1. Section FC406 of the New York city fire code, is amended by adding a new provision, FC406.2.3:

406.2.3 Hurricane evacuation notices. The owner of any Group R-2 building or occupancy within a hurricane evacuation zone, as designated by the commissioner of the office of emergency management, shall cause a hurricane evacuation notice to be posted within the building or occupancy. Such notice shall serve to inform building occupants of the current hurricane evacuation zone designation for that building and the methodology for determining their closest hurricane evacuation centers, through 311 or the online Hurricane Evacuation Zone finder. Such notice shall be in such form as prescribed by the commissioner by rule and shall be posted within a common area of the building and such other locations as set forth in the rules.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after becoming law.

 

 

BJR/JDK

LS # 957

Int. 741-2015; Int. 562-2018

3/20/19