File #: Int 0851-2000    Version: * Name: Horse Stables, Fire Sprinklers
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 12/5/2000
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 fire sprinklers in horse stables.
Sponsors: Peter F. Vallone, Archie W. Spigner, Herbert E. Berman, Adolfo Carrion, Pedro G. Espada, Lloyd Henry, Stanley E. Michels, Michael C. Nelson, Morton Povman, Victor L. Robles, Lawrence A. Warden, Priscilla A. Wooten, Michael J. Abel, Alphonse Stabile, Wendell Foster, Karen Koslowitz, Sheldon S. Leffler, Gifford Miller, Jerome X. O'Donovan, Mary Pinkett, Madeline T. Provenzano, Philip Reed, Angel Rodriguez, Guillermo Linares
Council Member Sponsors: 24
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2001*Peter F. Vallone City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/27/2001*Peter F. Vallone Committee on Housing and Buildings Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/27/2001*Peter F. Vallone Committee on Housing and Buildings Deferred  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/5/2000*Peter F. Vallone Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/5/2000*Peter F. Vallone City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/5/2000*Peter F. Vallone City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 851
 
By the Speaker (Council Member Vallone) and Council Members Spigner, Berman, Carrion, Espada, Henry, Michels, Nelson, Povman, Robles, Warden, Wooten, Abel and Stabile; also Council Members Foster, Koslowitz, Leffler, Miller, O'Donovan, Pinkett, Provenzano, Reed, Rodriguez and Linares
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the installation of fire 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, as last amended by local law number 10 for the year 1999, is amended by adding thereto 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
No
No
 
      §2.  Subdivision c of section 27-954 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as last amended by local law number 82 for the year 1973, is 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 under subdivision aa of this section.
      §3.  The opening paragraph of subdivision d of section 27-954 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as last amended by local law number 82 for the year 1973, is amended to read as follows:
      (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 under subdivision aa of this section.
      §4.  Section 27-954 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as last amended by local law number 10 for the year 1999, is amended by adding a new subdivision aa to read as follows:
      aa.  Buildings and spaces classified in storage occupancy group B-1 that are used as a stable by a person, establishment or facility for four or more horses.  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the sprinkler system may be connected to the domestic water supply.  However, any such stables existing at the enactment of this subdivision shall be made to comply with the provisions of this subdivision by July first, two thousand two.
      §5.  This local law shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
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