Legislation Details

File #: Int 0076-1998    Version: * Name: Hot Water Supply
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 1/22/1998
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring landlords to supply hot water at all times.
Sponsors: Stanley E. Michels, Stephen DiBrienza, Ronnie M. Eldridge, Thomas K. Duane, Kathryn E. Freed, Guillermo Linares, June M. Eisland, Madeline T. Provenzano, Sheldon S. Leffler, Walter L. McCaffrey, Victor L. Robles, Bill Perkins
Council Member Sponsors: 12
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2001*Stanley E. Michels City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/12/1998*Stanley E. Michels Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/22/1998*Stanley E. Michels City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/22/1998*Stanley E. Michels City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 76  
 
By Council Members Michels, DiBrienza, Eldridge, Duane, Freed, Linares, Eisland and Provenzano; also Council Members Leffler, McCaffrey,Robles and Perkins.
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring landlords to supply hot water at all times.
 
 
Be it enacted to the Council as follows:
 
         Section one. Section 27-2031 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
                   Section 27-2031. Supply of hot water; when required.-Except as otherwise provided in this article, every bath, 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. 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 or substantially rehabilitated, or completely vacated after July fourteenth, nineteen hundred sixty-seven.
         ยง2.       This local law shall take effect immediately,
 
         Referred to the Committee on Housing and Building.