Details Meeting Name: Committee on Fire and Emergency Management Agenda status: Final Meeting date/time: 4/6/2022 10:00 AM Minutes status: Final   Meeting location: HYBRID HEARING - Council Chambers - City Hall Jointly with the Committee on Housing and Buildings and the Special Committee on Twin Parks Citywide Taskforce on Fire Prevention Published agenda: Agenda Published minutes: Minutes   Meeting video: Video   Attachments: CLICK ANY FILE # BELOW (in blue) TO ACCESS LEGISLATION AND ATTACHMENTS Meeting Items (20) 20 records Group Clear sorting Clear grouping Group by Type Group by Result Export Export to Excel Export to PDF Export to Word Show: All agenda items Legislation only All agenda items File # Ver. Prime Sponsor Agenda # Agenda Note Name Type Summary Action Result Action Details Multimedia                     Roll call Not available T2022-0489 *       Oversight - Agency Enforcement and the Twin Parks Fire. Oversight   Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available T2022-0489 *       Oversight - Agency Enforcement and the Twin Parks Fire. Oversight   Filed, by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0104-2022 * Oswald Feliz     Defining the term self-closing door. Introduction This bill would add a definition for the term “self-closing door” as it is used within the Housing Maintenance Code. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0104-2022 * Oswald Feliz     Defining the term self-closing door. Introduction This bill would add a definition for the term “self-closing door” as it is used within the Housing Maintenance Code. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0105-2022 * Oswald Feliz     Housing and fire safety. Introduction This bill would reduce the amount of time for a landlord to correct a violation to keep or maintain self-closing doors from 21 days to 14 days. Once the 14 day window has run, it also requires inspection by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development within 20 days, regardless of whether the owner has submitted a certification of correction. It establishes a civil penalty range of $250-$500 for violation of the self-closing door requirement. It would also increase civil penalties for false certification of correction of class B and class C violations of the Housing Maintenance Code. Finally, this bill would clarify that all doors providing access to interior corridors or stairs in R-1 and R-2 occupancy groups must be self-closing or equipped with a device that will ensure such doors close shut and are latched. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0105-2022 * Oswald Feliz     Housing and fire safety. Introduction This bill would reduce the amount of time for a landlord to correct a violation to keep or maintain self-closing doors from 21 days to 14 days. Once the 14 day window has run, it also requires inspection by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development within 20 days, regardless of whether the owner has submitted a certification of correction. It establishes a civil penalty range of $250-$500 for violation of the self-closing door requirement. It would also increase civil penalties for false certification of correction of class B and class C violations of the Housing Maintenance Code. Finally, this bill would clarify that all doors providing access to interior corridors or stairs in R-1 and R-2 occupancy groups must be self-closing or equipped with a device that will ensure such doors close shut and are latched. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0106-2022 * Shahana K. Hanif     Sale of electric space heaters. Introduction This bill would prohibit the sale of electric space heaters without certain safety features; specifically, requiring all such devices for sale to be equipped with a thermostat, an automatic function that disables the device upon tip-over or overheating, and be certified by a nationally recognized testing laboratory. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0106-2022 * Shahana K. Hanif     Sale of electric space heaters. Introduction This bill would prohibit the sale of electric space heaters without certain safety features; specifically, requiring all such devices for sale to be equipped with a thermostat, an automatic function that disables the device upon tip-over or overheating, and be certified by a nationally recognized testing laboratory. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0115-2022 * Crystal Hudson     Minimum temperatures required to be maintained in dwellings. Introduction During heating season, between October 1 and May 31, owners of residential buildings who are required to provide heat for their tenants must maintain certain minimum temperatures in areas of dwelling units that are used or occupied for living purposes. This bill would increase the minimum daytime (between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.) temperature during heating season from 68 degrees to 70 degrees, and it would increase the nighttime (between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.) temperature from 62 degrees to 66 degrees. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0115-2022 * Crystal Hudson     Minimum temperatures required to be maintained in dwellings. Introduction During heating season, between October 1 and May 31, owners of residential buildings who are required to provide heat for their tenants must maintain certain minimum temperatures in areas of dwelling units that are used or occupied for living purposes. This bill would increase the minimum daytime (between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m.) temperature during heating season from 68 degrees to 70 degrees, and it would increase the nighttime (between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.) temperature from 62 degrees to 66 degrees. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0131-2022 * Pierina Ana Sanchez     Requiring the fire dept to conduct residential education and outreach regarding the safe operation of electric space heaters. Introduction This bill would amend current requirements relating to the Fire Department’s efforts to conduct fire safety education and outreach for residential buildings, by requiring that such activities include dissemination of relevant information pertaining to the safe operations of electric space heaters in residential settings. Additionally, any fire safety related written materials distributed by the Fire Department would be required to be produced in the top ten most commonly spoken languages in the city. Hearing Held by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0131-2022 * Pierina Ana Sanchez     Requiring the fire dept to conduct residential education and outreach regarding the safe operation of electric space heaters. Introduction This bill would amend current requirements relating to the Fire Department’s efforts to conduct fire safety education and outreach for residential buildings, by requiring that such activities include dissemination of relevant information pertaining to the safe operations of electric space heaters in residential settings. Additionally, any fire safety related written materials distributed by the Fire Department would be required to be produced in the top ten most commonly spoken languages in the city. Laid Over by Committee   Action details Not available Int 0155-2022 * David M. Carr   Preconsidered Requiring the commissioner of buildings to waive filing fees for permits to alter family dwellings to conform to the NYC fire code. Introduction This bill would require the Commissioner of Buildings to waive the filing fee for a permit to alter a one-, two- or three-family home when the dwelling has been damaged by fire for work to repair damage from the fire and any construction defects discovered following the fire. The fee waiver would extend to other dwellings in the same homeowner’s association or cooperative association to correct the same construction defect. The bill would also require the Department of Buildings to conduct outreach on the waiver in the designated citywide languages. Hearing on P-C Item by Comm   Action details Not available Int 0155-2022 * David M. Carr     Requiring the commissioner of buildings to waive filing fees for permits to alter family dwellings to conform to the NYC fire code. Introduction This bill would require the Commissioner of Buildings to waive the filing fee for a permit to alter a one-, two- or three-family home when the dwelling has been damaged by fire for work to repair damage from the fire and any construction defects discovered following the fire. The fee waiver would extend to other dwellings in the same homeowner’s association or cooperative association to correct the same construction defect. The bill would also require the Department of Buildings to conduct outreach on the waiver in the designated citywide languages. P-C Item Laid Over by Comm   Action details Not available Int 0156-2022 * David M. Carr   Preconsidered Requiring carbon monoxide detecting devices in the basements of certain dwellings. Introduction This bill would require that all multi-family apartment buildings install carbon monoxide detecting devices in basement common areas of such buildings, except those areas regularly used for access to or egress from a dwelling unit. Such requirement would not apply to private dwellings. Hearing on P-C Item by Comm   Action details Not available Int 0156-2022 * David M. Carr     Requiring carbon monoxide detecting devices in the basements of certain dwellings. Introduction This bill would require that all multi-family apartment buildings install carbon monoxide detecting devices in basement common areas of such buildings, except those areas regularly used for access to or egress from a dwelling unit. Such requirement would not apply to private dwellings. P-C Item Laid Over by Comm   Action details Not available Int 0208-2022 * Nantasha M. Williams   Preconsidered Inspections of self-closing doors and fire safety notices in residential buildings. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) to establish rules to select 300 multiple dwellings, in consultation with the Fire Department (FDNY), to be inspected for self-closing door compliance. It would require HPD to submit an annual report with information about these inspections. This bill would also require HPD to provide information to FDNY regarding fire safety violations dating back to 2017, which FDNY must audit to inform its building inspection program. Hearing on P-C Item by Comm   Action details Not available Int 0208-2022 * Nantasha M. Williams     Inspections of self-closing doors and fire safety notices in residential buildings. Introduction This bill would require the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) to establish rules to select 300 multiple dwellings, in consultation with the Fire Department (FDNY), to be inspected for self-closing door compliance. It would require HPD to submit an annual report with information about these inspections. This bill would also require HPD to provide information to FDNY regarding fire safety violations dating back to 2017, which FDNY must audit to inform its building inspection program. P-C Item Laid Over by Comm   Action details Not available                     Not available