File #: Int 0486-2003    Version: * Name: Approval of materials and equipment used in building construction.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 5/28/2003
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the approval of materials and equipment used in building construction.
Sponsors: Eva S. Moskowitz, Michael C. Nelson, Gale A. Brewer
Council Member Sponsors: 3

Int. No. 486

 

By Council Members Moskowitz, Nelson and Brewer

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the approval of materials and equipment used in building construction.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1.  Section 27-131.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as enacted by local law number 49 for the year nineteen hundred ninety one, is amended to read as follows:

§27-131.1 Reference Standards. The appendix to this chapter of the administrative code, known as the “building code reference standards,” is adopted and promulgated and shall be known as the “building code rules” of said chapter; except for reference standards RS4-3[,] and RS7-2[, and such portions of RS16 not included in the “List of Referenced National Standards”].  The commissioner shall [be empowered] have exclusive authority to issue or amend the building code reference standards [acting], except that the commissioner shall act in consultation with the fire commissioner on all issues relating to fire safety. 

                     §2. This local law shall take effect immediately upon its enactment into law. 

 

 

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