NYC Council · Int 0090-2024 · Filed (End of Session)

Strengthening Fire Safety Bill Package - Requiring the FDNY to provide annual fire hazard-identification trainings to HPD inspectors and DOB inspectors, requiring such inspectors to notify owners and tenants of hazards.

Introduced

Moved

Reached a final decision

Introduced Feb 8, 2024

Official status: Filed (End of Session)

Derived from the official record below.

Officially: “A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the fire department to provide annual fire hazard-identification trainings to department of housing preservation and development inspectors and department of buildings inspectors, requiring such...” Read the full text

Fire and Emergency Management

What it does

This bill would create an obligation for Department of Housing Preservation and Development inspectors and Department of Buildings inspectors to receive annual fire-hazard identification training from the Fire Department and would obligate inspectors to notify owners of external and internal fire hazards including, but not limited to, hanging wires; appliances; battery-charged vehicles or devices; flammable materials, liquids, and debris; building defects; and inaccessible exits and fire escapes.

Summary written by City Council staff, from the official record. Plain-language AI rewrite with cited sections coming. Not legal advice.