New York S 3406: Expands remedies for violations of New York state uniform fire prevention and building code

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S03406 Summary:

BILL NOS03406 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06289

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SPONSORCOMRIE

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COSPNSRHINCHEY, JACKSON, KAVANAGH, SEPULVEDA, WEBB

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §382, Exec L

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Expands remedies for violations of New York state uniform fire prevention and building code.

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BILL NOS03406 

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01/27/2025REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

02/03/20251ST REPORT CAL.219

02/04/20252ND REPORT CAL.

02/05/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

03/17/2025PASSED SENATE

03/17/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

03/17/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

02/04/20261ST REPORT CAL.234

02/05/20262ND REPORT CAL.

02/09/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

02/25/2026PASSED SENATE

02/25/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

02/25/2026referred to governmental operations

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3406

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 27, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, HINCHEY, JACKSON, KAVANAGH, SEPULVEDA, WEBB
 -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
 the Committee on Housing, Construction and Community Development

 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to expanding remedies for
 violations of New York state uniform fire prevention and building code

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 382 of the executive law, as
 2 amended by chapter 571 of the laws of 2021, is amended and a new subdi-
 3 vision 2-a is added to read as follows:
 4 2. Any person, having been served, either personally or by registered
 5 or certified mail, with an order to remedy any condition, other than a
 6 condition that is deemed an imminent threat to the safety and welfare of
 7 the building's occupants, found to exist in, on, or about any building
 8 in violation of the uniform fire prevention and building code, who shall
 9 fail to comply with such order within the time fixed by the regulations
 10 promulgated by the secretary pursuant to subdivision one of section
 11 three hundred eighty-one of this article, such time period to be stated
 12 in the order, and any owner, builder, architect, tenant, contractor,
 13 subcontractor, construction superintendent or their agents or any other
 14 person taking part or assisting in the construction of any building who
 15 shall knowingly violate any of the applicable provisions of the uniform
 16 code or any lawful order of a local government, a county or the secre-
 17 tary made thereunder regarding standards for construction, maintenance,
 18 or fire protection equipment and systems, shall be punishable by a fine
 19 of not more than one thousand dollars per day of violation, or imprison-
 20 ment not exceeding one year, or both for the first one hundred eighty
 21 days, and for the following one hundred eighty days shall be punishable
 22 by a fine of no less than twenty-five dollars and not more than one
 23 thousand dollars per day of violation or imprisonment not exceeding one
 24 year, or both and thereafter shall be punishable by a fine of no less

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05208-01-5

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 1 than fifty dollars and not more than one thousand dollars per day of
 2 violation or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.
 3 2-a. Any person, having been served, either personally or by regis-
 4 tered or certified mail, with an order to remedy a condition that is an
 5 imminent threat to the safety and welfare of the building's occupants as
 6 determined by the local government and its authorized agents, found to
 7 exist in, on, or about any building in violation of the uniform fire
 8 prevention and building code, who shall fail to comply with such order
 9 within the time fixed by the regulations promulgated by the secretary
 10 pursuant to subdivision one of section three hundred eighty-one