Legislation Details

File #: Int 0920-2026    Version: * Name: Storing and charging mobility devices.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Fire and Emergency Management
On agenda: 5/20/2026
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city fire code, in relation to storing and charging mobility devices
Sponsors: Phil Wong , Farah N. Louis, Frank Morano
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would remove the exception in ยง309.3 of the New York City Fire Code that allows the storage and charging of mobility devices in a dwelling unit in a Group R-2 occupancy building.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 920, 2. Int. No. 920

Int. No. 920

 

By Council Members Wong, Louis and Morano

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city fire code, in relation to storing and charging mobility devices

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section FC 309.3 of the New York city fire code, as added by local law number 47 for the year 2022, is amended to read as follows:

309.3 Battery-powered industrial trucks, industrial equipment and mobility devices. Powered industrial trucks, powered industrial equipment and powered mobility devices using a storage battery shall be designed in accordance with FC 309.3.1, and shall be charged and stored in a storage, charging and/or repair facility, including any storage or charging area in Group B, R-2 or M occupancy, that is designed, installed, operated and maintained in accordance with the construction codes, electrical code and FC 309.3.2 through 309.3.4.

 

Exceptions.

 

1. Storage and charging in a Group R-3 occupancy [or in a dwelling unit in a Group R-2 occupancy] of not more than 5 powered mobility devices using a storage battery, provided that such devices are for personal use.

 

2. Charging of a single powered mobility device by and in the presence of its owner or user.

 

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

DPM

LS #21714

4/30/2026 10:21 AM