“Amanda’s Law” New Carbon Monoxide Detector Law Becomes Effective In New York February 22nd
After a young women named Amanda died of Carbon Monoxide poisoning in her home in the Buffalo area, the State Legislature passed and the Governor signed into law new tougher regulations requiring carbon monoxide detectors in all properties that have furnaces, stoves, hot water heaters etc. – any potential sources of carbon monoxide generation.
The law already requires that upon sale of a home that a CM detector be in place, but that really is insufficient; in existing homes that have not sold too many people do have not have them, and many do not even have smoke detectors. Hard to believe but I know its true.
If this law saves one life it is worth it.
Thanks to the New York State Association of Realtors http://www.NYSAR.org who made me aware of the new law.
Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as “Amanda’s Law”.
§ 2. Subdivision 5-a of section 378 of the executive law, as amended by chapter 202 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
5-a. Standards for installation of carbon monoxide detectors requiring 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 carbon monoxide detector of such manufacture, design and installation standards as are established by the council. Carbon monoxide detectors required by this section are required only where the dwelling unit has appliances, devices or systems that may emit carbon monoxide or has an attached garage. For purposes of this subdivision, multiple dwelling means a dwelling which is either rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied, or 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.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law.
