What's happening
This bill requires all New York residences, including condos and multi-family dwellings, to install combustible gas detectors with automatic gas leak reporting by July 2018.
Why it matters
Enhances early detection and safety. By mandating combustible gas detectors that can automatically report gas leaks, the bill aims to quickly identify and respond to hazardous gas leaks, reducing the risk of explosions, fires, and carbon monoxide poisoning for residents.
Expands coverage to nearly all residential types. The requirement applies to single-family homes, condos, co-ops, and all multi-family dwellings, including temporary and permanent residences, dormitories, nursing homes, and other communal living spaces—broadly increasing the reach of safety protections.
Creates new accountability for gas companies. Gas utilities are required to receive automatic alerts from detectors and must issue annual, county-specific reports on detected leaks, increasing transparency and potentially prompting faster system-wide safety improvements.
Sets technical standards and future flexibility. Detectors must comply with American National Standards Institute guidelines and be technologically capable of automatic reporting, giving assurance of device reliability, with the potential for the state to update standards as technology evolves.
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Require Gas Detectors in Homes
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STATE OF NEW YORK
469
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. RODRIGUEZ -- read once and referred to the Committee 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 Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 378 of the executive law is amended by adding a new subdivision 17 to read as follows:
17. a. (i) Standards for installation of combustible gas detectors requiring, no later than July first, two thousand eighteen that every one or two-family dwelling, or any dwelling accommodation located in a building owned as a condominium or cooperative in the state or any multiple dwellings shall have installed an operable combustible gas detector of such manufacture, design and installation standards as are established by the council.
(ii) Standards for the reporting of gas leaks reported via automatic transmission to a gas company by a gas detector by such gas companies. Provided, however, that such standards shall require a gas company to issue an annual report detailing the number of leaks received in a calendar year disaggregated by county.
b. For purposes of this subdivision, combustible gas detector means an alarm device that complies with the applicable standards of the American National Standards Institute, or its successors, for residential devices for the detection of combustible quantities of methane and propane gases, unless such standards are superseded by rules adopted by the council. Provided, however, that such devices shall further be equipped with technology enabling such devices to automatically report the occurrence of each gas leak detected by such devices to the company providing gas to the dwelling in which such device is located.
c. For purposes of this subdivision, multiple dwelling means a dwelling 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.
LBD04702-01-7
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is occupied as the temporary or permanent residence or home of three or more families living independently of each other, including but not limited to the following: a tenement, flat house, maisonette apartment, apartment house, apartment hotel, tourist house, bachelor apartment, studio apartment, duplex apartment, kitchenette apartment, hotel, lodging house, rooming house, boarding house, boarding and nursery school, furnished room house, club, sorority house, fraternity house, college and school dormitory, convalescent, old age or nursing homes or residences. It shall also include a dwelling, two or more stories in height, and with five or more boarders, roomers or lodgers residing with any one family. New construction shall mean a new facility or a separate building added to an existing facility.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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