New York S 9441: Requires landlords in the city of New York to provide fire extinguishers in certain dwellings

Status: REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT (as of 2026-03-12)

State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: S 9441

Sponsors: Stephen T. Chan, Alexis Weik, Mario Mattera, Patricia Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick, William Weber

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S09441 Summary:

BILL NOS09441 

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SAME ASSAME AS A11618

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SPONSORCHAN

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COSPNSRCANZONERI-FITZPATRICK, MATTERA, WEBER, WEIK

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §69, Mult Dwell L

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Requires landlords of non-owner occupied, one-six family dwellings in the city of New York to provide fire extinguishers in all rented apartments; authorizes the promulgation of standards related thereto.

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BILL NOS09441 

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03/12/2026REFERRED TO HOUSING, CONSTRUCTION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

06/04/2026COMMITTEE DISCHARGED AND COMMITTED TO RULES

06/04/2026ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1745

06/04/2026PASSED SENATE

06/04/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/04/2026referred to housing

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 9441

 IN SENATE

 March 12, 2026
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 Introduced by Sen. CHAN -- 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 multiple dwelling law, in relation to requiring fire
 extinguishers in certain rented dwellings

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

 1 Section 1. The multiple dwelling law is amended by adding a new
 2 section 69 to read as follows:
 3 § 69. Fire extinguishers required in certain dwellings. In a city with
 4 a population of one million or more, standards for installation of fire
 5 extinguishers requiring that every living unit not occupied by the owner
 6 of such living unit, which shall include but not be limited to, a one-
 7 six family dwelling, or any dwelling accommodation located in a building
 8 owned as a condominium or cooperative in the state or any multiple
 9 dwellings shall have installed an operable fire extinguisher of such
 10 manufacture, design and installation standards as are established by the
 11 state fire prevention and building code council. For purposes of this
 12 section, multiple dwelling means a dwelling which is either rented or
 13 leased to be occupied, or is occupied as the temporary or permanent
 14 residence or home of one or more families living independently of each
 15 other, including but not limited to the following: a tenement, flat
 16 house, maisonette apartment, apartment house, apartment hotel, tourist
 17 house, bachelor apartment, studio apartment, duplex apartment, kitchen-
 18 ette apartment, hotel, lodging house, rooming house, boarding house,
 19 boarding and nursery school, furnished room house, club, sorority house,
 20 fraternity house, college and school dormitory, convalescent, old age or
 21 nursing homes or residences.
 22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
 23 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15145-01-6

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