File #: Int 1390-2025    Version: * Name: Cooling tower inspections in heat-related emergencies.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 9/10/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to cooling tower inspections in heat-related emergencies
Sponsors: Lynn C. Schulman, Tiffany Cabán
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would amend New York City’s cooling tower inspection requirements by requiring building owners to inspect and test cooling towers for the presence of microbes at least as frequently as every 30 days during periods of the year such cooling towers are in use. The bill further requires that, if a heat-related emergency occurs, such cooling towers shall be inspected and tested on the earlier of either 14 days from the date of the most recent inspection and testing, or 14 days from the first day of a heat-related emergency if such day occurs more than 14 days after the date of most recent inspection and testing.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1390, 2. Int. No. 1390, 3. September 10, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1390

 

By Council Members Schulman and Cabán

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to cooling tower inspections in heat-related emergencies

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

 

Section 1. Subdivision a of section 17.194.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law 77 for the year 2015, is amended by adding a new definition of “heat-related emergency” in alphabetical order to read as follows:

Heat-related emergency. The term “heat-related emergency” has the same meaning as set forth in section 30-116.

§ 2. Subdivision e of section 17-194.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law 77 for the year 2015, is amended to read as follows:

e. Minimum requirements for inspections and testing. At a minimum, cooling towers, other than cooling towers whose use has been permanently discontinued and for which a notice of such discontinuation has been sent to the department of buildings, shall be inspected and tested at least as frequently as every [three months] 30 days during periods of the year such cooling towers are in use[.], except that if a heat-related emergency occurs, such cooling towers shall be inspected and tested on the earlier of either 14 days from (i) the date of the most recent inspection and testing, or (ii) the first day of a heat-related emergency, if such day occurs more than 14 days after the date of most recent inspection and testing.

§ 3. This local law takes effect immediately.

 

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LS #20362

9/5/25