File #: Int 0751-2024    Version: Name: Creation of a residential fire emergency response guide.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Fire and Emergency Management
On agenda: 4/11/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the creation of a residential fire emergency response guide
Sponsors: Jennifer Gutiérrez, Joann Ariola , Julie Won, James F. Gennaro, Lynn C. Schulman, Christopher Marte, Shekar Krishnan, Lincoln Restler, Tiffany Cabán, Crystal Hudson, Carlina Rivera , Sandy Nurse, Amanda Farías, Diana I. Ayala, Chi A. Ossé, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Shaun Abreu, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Nantasha M. Williams, Alexa Avilés, Shahana K. Hanif, Farah N. Louis, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Oswald Feliz, Rita C. Joseph, Julie Menin, Eric Dinowitz, Inna Vernikov, (in conjunction with the Brooklyn Borough Presiden
Council Member Sponsors: 28
Summary: This bill would require an agency or office designated by the mayor, in consultation with the New York City Fire Department (FDNY), the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), the Department of Buildings (DOB), and any other relevant agency, to develop and maintain a residential fire emergency response guide for individuals affected or displaced by a residential fire. Such guide would include information about entities that assist individuals following residential fires, including information on emergency housing and aid. This bill would require FDNY to distribute the guide at the scene of residential fires using a quick response (QR) code posted on Department vehicles. Finally, the bill will require relevant agencies to make such guide available to individuals affected or displaced by a residential fire on location at post-fire inspections.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 751-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 751, 3. Int. No. 751, 4. April 11, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-11-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - April 11, 2024, 7. Committee Report 4/3/25, 8. Hearing Testimony 4/3/25, 9. Hearing Transcript 4/3/25, 10. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 11. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 12. Proposed Int. No. 751-A - 7/9/25
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4/3/2025*Jennifer Gutiérrez Committee on Housing and Buildings Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/3/2025*Jennifer Gutiérrez Committee on Housing and Buildings Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/3/2025*Jennifer Gutiérrez Committee on Fire and Emergency Management Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/3/2025*Jennifer Gutiérrez Committee on Fire and Emergency Management Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/11/2024*Jennifer Gutiérrez City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
4/11/2024*Jennifer Gutiérrez City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Proposed Int. No. 751-A

 

By Council Members Gutiérrez, Ariola, Won, Gennaro, Schulman, Marte, Krishnan, Restler, Cabán, Hudson, Rivera, Nurse, Farías, Ayala, Ossé, Brooks-Powers, Abreu, De La Rosa, Williams, Avilés, Hanif, Louis, Sanchez, Feliz, Joseph, Menin, Dinowitz and Vernikov (in conjunction with the Brooklyn Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the creation of a residential fire emergency response guide

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 15 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 15-148 to read as follows:

§ 15-148 Residential fire emergency response guide. a. An agency or office designated by the mayor, in consultation with the fire commissioner, the commissioner of housing preservation and development, the commissioner of buildings, and any other relevant agencies, shall develop and maintain a residential fire emergency response guide for residents affected by a fire emergency. Such agency or office shall update information provided in the guide as necessary.

b. The guide developed pursuant to subdivision a of this section shall include the following information:

1. A summary of agencies that provide assistance to residents following a residential fire and the roles of such agencies;

2. Information pertaining to inspections required subsequent to a residential fire;

3. Information about any city, state, or federal organizations or agencies that provide emergency aid to natural persons displaced by residential fires;

4. Information about any city, state, or federal organizations or agencies that provide emergency housing to natural persons displaced by residential fires, disaggregated by borough;

5. Landlord duties and tenant protections following a residential fire; and

6. Best practices regarding renters’ insurance and suspending utilities for residential tenants displaced by or affected by a residential fire.

c. The fire commissioner shall distribute the guide developed pursuant to subdivision a of this section to residents displaced by a residential fire or otherwise affected by such fire through the use of a quick response code posted on department vehicles responding to the scene of such fire, and any other manner the fire commissioner determines practicable and effective. Such guide shall be published on the website of the mayor’s office in the designated citywide languages as defined in section 23-1101 of the administrative code of the city of New York.

d. The agency or office designated by the mayor to develop and maintain the guide pursuant to subdivision a of this section, or any other relevant agency, shall make the guide developed pursuant to subdivision a of this section available to displaced or otherwise affected tenants on the location of all post-fire inspections through the use of a quick response code or the use of any other technology.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.

 

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