File #: Int 0741-2005    Version: * Name: Creation of a temporary fuel-saving program.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 10/27/2005
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the creation of a temporary fuel-saving program.
Sponsors: Christine C. Quinn, Gale A. Brewer, Alan J. Gerson, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, John C. Liu, Michael C. Nelson, Annabel Palma, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Helen Sears, Kendall Stewart, David I. Weprin, Robert Jackson
Council Member Sponsors: 13
Attachments: 1. Committee Report, 2. Hearing Transcript
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2005*Christine C. Quinn City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/15/2005*Christine C. Quinn Committee on Housing and Buildings Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/15/2005*Christine C. Quinn Committee on Housing and Buildings Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/27/2005*Christine C. Quinn City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/27/2005*Christine C. Quinn City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 741

 

By Council Members Quinn, Brewer, Gerson, James, Koppell, Liu, Nelson, Palma, Recchia Jr., Sears, Stewart, Weprin and Jackson

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the creation of a temporary fuel-saving program.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1.  Section 27-2031 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 86 for the year 1996, is hereby amended to read as follows:

§27-2031 Supply of hot water; when required.  a.  Except as otherwise provided in this article, every [bath] bathtub, shower, washbasin and sink in any dwelling unit in a multiple dwelling or tenant-occupied one-family or two-family dwelling shall be supplied at all times between the hours of six a.m. and midnight with hot water at a constant minimum temperature of one hundred twenty degrees Fahrenheit from a central source of supply constructed in accordance with the provisions of the building code and the regulations of the department, provided however that [baths] bathtubs, [and] showers, washbasins and sinks equipped with balanced-pressure mixing valves, thermostatic mixing valves or combination pressure balancing/thermostatic valves that control water temperature may produce a discharge temperature less than one hundred twenty degrees Fahrenheit but in no event less than one hundred ten degrees Fahrenheit.  Gas or electric water heaters may, if approved by the department, be utilized in lieu of a central source of supply of hot water if such heaters:

(1) are lawfully in use on July fourteenth, nineteen hundred sixty-seven; or

(2) are approved by the appropriate city agencies having jurisdiction and are installed in a structure or building erected, converted, substantially rehabilitated, or completely vacated after July fourteenth, nineteen hundred sixty-seven.

§ 2.  Article 8 of subchapter two of chapter two of title 27 of the administrative code of the city of New York is hereby amended by adding a new section 27-2031.1 to read as follows:

§ 27-2031.1  Temporary fuel-saving program.   Notwithstanding the provisions of section 27-2031, beginning on January 20, 2006 and ending on April 20, 2006, every bathtub, shower, washbasin and sink in any dwelling unit in a multiple dwelling or tenant-occupied one-family or two-family dwelling shall be supplied at all times between the hours of six a.m. and midnight with hot water at a constant minimum temperature of one hundred ten degrees Fahrenheit from a central source of supply constructed in accordance with the provisions of the building code and the regulations of the department.  

§3.  Effective date.  This local law shall take effect immediately after the date of its enactment; provided, however, that section 27-2031.1 shall take effect on January 20, 2006 and have no further force or effect and shall be deemed repealed on April 20, 2006.  

 

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