File #: Int 1077-2018    Version: * Name: Requiring the fire dept to issue written warning notices and grant a penalty exception to the false alarm penalty for properly functioning fire alarms.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
File created: 8/8/2018 In control: Committee on Fire and Emergency Management
On agenda: 8/8/2018 Final action:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the fire department to issue written warning notices and grant a penalty exception to the false alarm penalty for properly functioning fire alarms
Sponsors: Donovan J. Richards, Robert F. Holden
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1077, 2. Int. No. 1077

Int. No. 1077

 

By Council Members Richards and Holden

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the fire department to issue written warning notices and grant a penalty exception to the false alarm penalty for properly functioning fire alarms

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 15-229 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding new subdivisions e and f to read as follows:

e. Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the department shall issue a written notice that a penalty will be imposed on subsequent violations to the owner or agent of the building or structure where the initial false alarm is transmitted to the department, provided no other false alarms were transmitted within the prior 18 months.

f. The department shall not impose a penalty for a violation pursuant to § 15-230 if the owner or agent of the building or structure where the false alarm was triggered can establish by certification that the alarm system was properly functioning at the time of the alarm within 30 days of the date the violation was issued.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law, except that the fire commissioner may take such measures as are necessary for its implementation, including the promulgation of rules, before such date.

 

 

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LS # 6990

7/23/18