File #: Int 0608-2018    Version: Name: Fire Safety Package - Requiring notice to close doors when escaping a fire.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
File created: 2/15/2018 In control: Committee on Fire and Emergency Management
On agenda: 2/15/2018 Final action: 6/9/2018
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring notice to close doors when escaping a fire
Sponsors: Ritchie J. Torres, Chaim M. Deutsch, Margaret S. Chin, Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Mark Levine, Robert F. Holden, Ben Kallos, Costa G. Constantinides, Carlina Rivera , I. Daneek Miller, Joseph C. Borelli, (by request of the Bronx Borough President)
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 608-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 608, 3. Int. No. 608, 4. February 15, 2018 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Committee Report 2/26/18, 6. Hearing Testimony 2/26/18, 7. Hearing Transcript 2/26/18, 8. Proposed Int. No. 608-A - 5/3/18, 9. Committee Report 5/8/18, 10. Hearing Transcript 5/8/18, 11. May 9, 2018 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 12. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-9-18, 13. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - May 9, 2018, 14. Fiscal Impact Statement, 15. Int. No. 608-A (FINAL), 16. Local Law 115
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2/26/2018* Committee on Housing and Buildings Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
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Int. No. 608-A

 

By Council Members Torres, Deutsch, Chin, Ampry-Samuel, Levine, Holden, Kallos, Constantinides, Rivera, Miller and Borelli (by request of the Bronx Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring notice to close doors when escaping a fire

 

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 15-135 to read as follows:  

 

                     § 15-135 Notice regarding closed doors and fires. The department shall require owners of multiple dwellings to post a notice in conspicuous locations indicating that those escaping a fire should close all doors behind them.

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

 

 

 

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