File #: Int 1038-2009    Version: * Name: Carbon monoxide and smoke detecting devices.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 6/30/2009
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to carbon monoxide and smoke detecting devices.
Sponsors: Daniel R. Garodnick, Gale A. Brewer, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, John C. Liu, Michael C. Nelson, Albert Vann, Alan J. Gerson
Council Member Sponsors: 8
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2009*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/30/2009*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/30/2009*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 1038

 

By Council Members Garodnick, James, Koppell, Liu, Nelson, Vann and Gerson

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to carbon monoxide and smoke detecting devices.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1.  Subdivision (a) of section 27-2045 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding new paragraphs 6 and 7 to read as follows:

                     (6) notify deaf or hearing impaired tenants, in writing, of their right to have provided and installed one or more approved and operational smoke detecting devices in their dwelling unit, capable of alerting such tenant to a smoke hazard in such dwelling unit, at the commencement or renewal of a lawful occupancy.

                     (7) upon the request of a deaf or hearing impaired tenant, to provide and install, free of charge, one or more approved and operational smoke detecting devices in the dwelling unit of such tenant, capable of alerting such tenant to a smoke hazard in such dwelling unit.

§ 2.  Section 27-2046 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding new paragraphs 5 and 6 to read as follows:

                     (5) notify deaf or hearing impaired tenants, in writing, of their right to have provided and installed one or more approved and operational smoke detecting devices in their dwelling unit, capable of alerting such tenant to a smoke hazard in such dwelling unit, at the commencement or renewal of a lawful occupancy.

                     (6) upon the request of a deaf or hearing impaired tenant, to provide and install, free of charge, one or more approved and operational smoke detecting devices in the dwelling unit of such tenant, capable of alerting such tenant to a smoke hazard in such dwelling unit.

 

§ 3.  Subdivision (b) of section 27-2046.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding new paragraphs 7 and 8 to read as follows:

                     (7) notify deaf or hearing impaired tenants, in writing, of their right to have provided and installed one or more approved and operational carbon monoxide detecting devices in their dwelling unit, capable of alerting such tenant to a carbon monoxide hazard in such dwelling unit, at the commencement or renewal of a lawful occupancy.

                     (8) upon the request of a deaf or hearing impaired tenant, to provide and install, free of charge, one or more approved and operational carbon monoxide detecting devices in the dwelling unit of such tenant, capable of alerting such tenant to a carbon monoxide hazard in such dwelling unit.

                     §4.  Subdivision (a) of section 27-2046.2 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding new paragraphs 5 and 6 to read as follows:

                     (5) notify deaf or hearing impaired tenants, in writing, of their right to have provided and installed one or more approved and operational carbon monoxide detecting devices in their dwelling unit, capable of alerting such tenant to a carbon monoxide hazard in such dwelling unit, at the commencement or renewal of a lawful occupancy.

                     (6) upon the request of a deaf or hearing impaired tenant, to provide and install, free of charge, one or more approved and operational carbon monoxide detecting devices in the dwelling unit of such tenant, capable of alerting such tenant to a carbon monoxide hazard in such dwelling unit.

                     §5. This local law shall take effect thirty days after enactment.

 

LS # 6560

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