File #: Int 0582-2011    Version: * Name: Requiring the installation of a system of automatic sprinklers in horse stables.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 5/26/2011
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the installation of a system of automatic sprinklers in horse stables.
Sponsors: Daniel J. Halloran III, Daniel Dromm , Lewis A. Fidler, G. Oliver Koppell, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Michael C. Nelson, Annabel Palma, Deborah L. Rose, Jumaane D. Williams, Sara M. Gonzalez, Letitia James, Ydanis A. Rodriguez, Eric A. Ulrich
Council Member Sponsors: 13
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2013*Daniel J. Halloran III City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/26/2011*Daniel J. Halloran III City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/26/2011*Daniel J. Halloran III City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 582
By Council Members Halloran, Dromm, Fidler, Koppell, Mark-Viverito, Nelson, Palma, Rose, Williams, Gonzalez, James, Rodriguez and Ulrich
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the installation of a system of automatic sprinklers in horse stables.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1.  Table 17-2 of article 4 of subchapter 17 of chapter 1 of title 27 of the administrative code of the city of New York, is amended by adding a line following the last line of such table to read as follows:
TABLE 17-2  SUMMARY OF SPRINKLER REQUIREMENTS
 
Where Required Type of System
Automatic Sources Required
Partial System Permitted
Connection to Domestic Permitted
Alternate Permitted (§27-955)
Siamese Required (§27-959)
Centrala Station Required (§27-955) (§27-967)
Waterb Flow Alarm Required (§27-957)
Automatic Dry Sprinkler Permitted (§5212 of RS17)
Dry Nonautomatic Sprinkler Permittedc
Stables (§27-954 (aa))
1
No
Yes §27-961(c)
No
Yes
Nonea
Yes
Yes
No
 
§2.  Subdivisions c and d of section 27-954 of the administrative code of the city of New York are amended to read as follows:
c.  Buildings classified in storage occupancy group B-1 exceeding one thousand square feet in floor area, or seventy-five feet or more in height, except as modified under subdivisions a, b and c of section 27-455 of article ten of subchapter seven of this code and in accordance with subdivision bb of this section.
d. Spaces classified in storage occupancy group B-1 exceeding five hundred square feet in floor area, except as modified under subdivisions a, b and c of section 27-455 of article ten of subchapter seven of this code and in accordance with subdivision bb of this section.
§3.  Section 27-954 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision bb to read as follows:
bb. In all existing buildings and structures classified in occupancy group B-1 that are used as stables for horses.
§4. Section 903 of the New York City building code is amended by adding a new section 903.2.8.3 to read as follows:
903.2.8.3. Horse stables. An automatic sprinkler system shall be installed throughout all S-1 buildings and structures used as stables for horses.
§5. Section 903 of the New York City building code is amended by adding a new section 903.2.9.4 to read as follows:
903.2.9.4. Horse stables. An automatic sprinkler system shall be installed throughout all S-2 buildings and structures used as stables for horses.
§6. This local law shall take effect immediately.
 
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