N.Y. Mult. Resid. Law § 15 Smoke Detecting Devices

• Library: New York Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through 2023 NY Law Chapter 777
• Year: 2023
• Citation: N.Y. Mult. Resid. Law § 15

1. This section shall apply to all multiple dwellings, whenever constructed, provided however, that for the purposes of this section the term "multiple dwelling" shall also include any dwelling accommodation used as a temporary or permanent residence located in any building owned as a condominium or cooperative.

2.

(a) The owner of every multiple dwelling to which the provisions of this section apply shall equip each apartment or other separate living unit in such multiple dwelling with approved and operational smoke detecting devices in conformity with the state fire prevention and building code; provided, however, that any multiple dwelling not subject to the provisions of such code may, in the alternative, be equipped with battery-operated smoke detecting devices of a type accepted by the division of housing and community renewal.

(b) In hotels, tourist houses, lodging houses, rooming houses, boarding houses, boarding and nursery schools, furnished room houses, club houses, sorority and fraternity houses, college and school dormitories, convalescent, old age and nursing homes, any dwelling which is two or more stories in height, with five or more boarders, roomers or lodgers residing with any one family, and any multiple dwelling used for single room occupancy, at least one smoke detecting device shall be located within each room used for sleeping purposes. In any other multiple dwelling or portion thereof, there shall be at least one smoke detecting device located within each apartment or separate living unit, in an area so that it is clearly audible in each bedroom or other room used for sleeping purposes, with intervening doors closed; provided, however, that no smoke detecting device be located more than ten feet from the entrance to any bedroom or other room used for sleeping purposes.

(c) Each smoke detecting device shall include a test device to permit the occupant to readily determine if it is operational.

(d) In addition to complying with the provisions of this section, the type, location, number, and manner of installation of smoke detecting devices shall be in accordance with standards prescribed by the state fire prevention and building code council.

3.

(a) With respect to multiple dwellings which are occupied for permanent residential purposes only, other than any portion of any such dwelling used for single room occupancy, and notwithstanding the provisions of sections forty and one hundred seventy-four or any other provision of this chapter, or of any other law or requirement, state or local, the duties of the owner and tenant with respect to smoke detecting devices installed pursuant to this section shall be as provided in subdivisions four and five of this section.