New York A 2183: Relates to requiring combustible gas detectors in certain structures

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A02183 Summary:

BILL NOA02183 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORHyndman

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §378, Exec L

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Requires that all temporary and permanent dwellings in the state shall install an operable combustible gas detector that wirelessly connects to the gas company; requires gas companies to release an annual report of the frequency of gas leaks by county.

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BILL NOA02183 

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01/15/2025referred to governmental operations

01/07/2026referred to governmental operations

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 2183

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 15, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Governmental Operations

 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring combustible
 gas detectors in certain structures

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

 1 Section 1. Section 378 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
 2 subdivision 21 to read as follows:
 3 21. a. (i) Standards for installation of combustible gas detectors
 4 requiring, no later than July first, two thousand twenty-six that every
 5 one or two-family dwelling, or any dwelling accommodation located in a
 6 building owned as a condominium or cooperative in the state or any
 7 multiple dwellings shall have installed an operable combustible gas
 8 detector of such manufacture, design and installation standards as are
 9 established by the council.
 10 (ii) Standards for the reporting of gas leaks reported via automatic
 11 transmission to a gas company by a gas detector by such gas companies.
 12 Provided, however, that such standards shall require a gas company to
 13 issue an annual report detailing the number of leaks received in a
 14 calendar year disaggregated by county.
 15 b. For purposes of this subdivision, combustible gas detector means an
 16 alarm device that complies with the applicable standards of the American
 17 National Standards Institute, or its successors, for residential devices
 18 for the detection of combustible quantities of methane and propane
 19 gases, unless such standards are superseded by rules adopted by the
 20 council. Provided, however, that such devices shall further be equipped
 21 with technology enabling such devices to automatically report the occur-
 22 rence of each gas leak detected by such devices to the company providing
 23 gas to the dwelling in which such device is located.
 24 c. For purposes of this subdivision, multiple dwelling means a dwell-
 25 ing which is either rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied, or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04990-01-5

 A. 2183 2

 1 is occupied as the temporary or permanent residence or home of three or
 2 more families living independently of each other, including but not
 3 limited to the following: a tenement, flat house, maisonette apartment,
 4 apartment house, apartment hotel, tourist house, bachelor apartment,
 5 studio apartment, duplex apartment, kitchenette apartment, hotel, lodg-
 6 ing house, rooming house, boarding house, boarding and nursery school,
 7 furnished room house, club, sorority house, fraternity house, college
 8 and school dormitory, convalescent, old age or nursing homes or resi-
 9 dences. It shall also include a dwelling, two or more stories in height,
 10 and with five or more boarders, roomers or lodgers residing with any one
 11 family. New construction shall mean a new facility or a separate build-
 12 ing added to an existing facility.
 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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