File #: Int 0089-2024    Version: Name: Strengthening Fire Safety Bill Package - Notification of council members of certain fires occurring within their district.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
Committee: Committee on Fire and Emergency Management
On agenda: 2/8/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to notification of council members of certain fires occurring within their district
Sponsors: Pierina Ana Sanchez, Shaun Abreu, Crystal Hudson, Farah N. Louis, Kalman Yeger , Lincoln Restler, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Oswald Feliz, Althea V. Stevens, Julie Won, Julie Menin, Lynn C. Schulman, Shahana K. Hanif, Sandra Ung, Chi A. Ossé, Mercedes Narcisse, Carmen N. De La Rosa, Darlene Mealy, (in conjunction with the Bronx Borough President)
Council Member Sponsors: 18
Summary: This bill would require an agency designated by the Mayor, to provide notice to Council Members of certain fires occurring within their districts. The notification would need to be sent within three hours of the Fire Department deploying personnel to the scene of the fire, and would include the following information relating to the fire: the date and time of the fire, the address of the fire, and details of the department’s emergency response to the fire.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 89-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 89, 3. Int. No. 89, 4. February 8, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-8-24, 6. Committee Report 2/29/24, 7. Hearing Testimony 2/29/24, 8. Hearing Transcript 2/29/24, 9. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 8, 2024, 10. Proposed Int. No. 89-A - 9/6/24, 11. Committee Report 9/12/24, 12. Hearing Transcript 9/12/24, 13. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 14. September 12, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 15. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-12-24, 16. Int. No. 89-A (FINAL), 17. Fiscal Impact Statement
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
9/12/2024APierina Ana Sanchez City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/12/2024APierina Ana Sanchez City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
9/12/2024*Pierina Ana Sanchez Committee on Fire and Emergency Management Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/12/2024*Pierina Ana Sanchez Committee on Fire and Emergency Management Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/12/2024*Pierina Ana Sanchez Committee on Fire and Emergency Management Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
9/12/2024APierina Ana Sanchez Committee on Fire and Emergency Management Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
2/29/2024*Pierina Ana Sanchez Committee on Housing and Buildings Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/29/2024*Pierina Ana Sanchez Committee on Housing and Buildings Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/29/2024*Pierina Ana Sanchez Committee on Fire and Emergency Management Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/29/2024*Pierina Ana Sanchez Committee on Fire and Emergency Management Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/8/2024*Pierina Ana Sanchez City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/8/2024*Pierina Ana Sanchez City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 89-A

 

By Council Members Sanchez, Abreu, Hudson, Louis, Yeger, Restler, Gutiérrez, Feliz, Stevens, Won, Menin, Schulman, Hanif, Ung, Ossé, Narcisse, De La Rosa and Mealy (in conjunction with the Bronx Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to notification of council members of certain fires occurring within their district

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 15 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 15-150 to read as follows:

§ 15-150 Notification of council members regarding fires. a. Definitions. For the purpose of this section, the following term has the following meaning:

All hands fire.  The term “all hands fire” means any operation conducted by the fire department where the severity of conditions, as determined by the fire department, requires the deployment of at least 12 units and 60 employees of such department to the scene of a fire.

b. An agency designated by the mayor shall notify a council member when an all hands fire occurs within the district of such council member. Such notification shall be sent via electronic mail within 3 hours of the fire department deploying its personnel to the scene of such incident, and shall include:

1. The date and time of such fire;

2. The address of such fire; and

3. Details of the fire department’s emergency response to such fire, including but not limited to, the initial and highest alarm level of such fire.

c. A process shall be established whereby any council member can opt out of the notification required by this section.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 540 days after it becomes law.

JDK/AC/RL

LS #7908/8421/10662/12926/13294

9/4/24