New York A 5713: Requires professional engineers, land surveyors and professional geologists to report structural faults within forty-eight hours

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A05713 Summary:

BILL NOA05713 

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Requires professional engineers, land surveyors and professional geologists to report structural faults within forty-eight hours.

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02/20/2025referred to higher education

01/07/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5713

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 20, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Higher Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring professional
 engineers, land surveyors and professional geologists to report struc-
 tural faults within forty-eight hours

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

 1 Section 1. Section 7209 of the education law is amended by adding a
 2 new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
 3 10. Every professional engineer, land surveyor and professional geolo-
 4 gist who finds a structural defect, fault, or other issue with any type
 5 of structure shall report such issue to the county, city, town, village
 6 and/or other political subdivision in which such structure is located
 7 within forty-eight hours of discovering such issue.
 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 9 have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04392-01-5

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