File #: Int 0964-2018    Version: * Name: Requiring smoke detecting devices and carbon monoxide detecting devices in certain dwellings and common areas.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
File created: 6/7/2018 In control: Committee on Housing and Buildings
On agenda: 6/7/2018 Final action:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and the New York city building code, in relation to requiring smoke detecting devices and carbon monoxide detecting devices in certain dwellings and common areas
Sponsors: Chaim M. Deutsch, Ritchie J. Torres, Mark Levine, Justin L. Brannan, Robert F. Holden, Karen Koslowitz
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 964, 2. Int. No. 964, 3. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 6-7-18
Int. No. 964

By Council Members Deutsch, Torres, Levine, Brannan, Holden and Koslowitz

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York and the New York city building code, in relation to requiring smoke detecting devices and carbon monoxide detecting devices in certain dwellings and common areas
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Section 27-2045 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 157 for the year 2016, is amended to read as follows:
? 27-2045 Duties of owner and occupant with respect to installation and maintenance of smoke detecting devices, carbon monoxide detecting devices and natural gas detecting devices.
a. As used in this section:
Class A multiple dwelling. The term "class A multiple dwelling" means a class A multiple dwelling as defined in paragraph 8 of subdivision a of section 27-2004, except that such term shall include garden-type maisonette dwellings constructed before April 18, 1954.
Garden-type maisonette dwelling. The term "garden-type maisonette dwelling" means a dwelling project consisting of a series of dwelling units that, together and in their aggregate, are arranged or designed to provide three or more apartments; are provided as a group collectively with all essential services such as, but not limited to, house sewers and heat; and are operated as a unit under single ownership, notwithstanding that certificates of occupancy were issued for portions thereof as private dwellings, as such term is defined in paragraph 6 of subdivision a of section 27-2004.
[Private dwelling. The term "private dwelling" means a dwelling unit in a one-family or two-family home that is occupied by a person or persons other than the owner of such unit or the owner's family.]
b. The owner of a class A multiple dwelling, class B multiple dwelling or private dwelling shall:
1. (a) Provide and install one or more approve...

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