File #: Int 1326-2025    Version: * Name: Requiring notification of the departments of buildings, housing preservation and development, environmental protection, and health and mental hygiene whenever the fire department responds to a structural fire, requiring the fire department.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Fire and Emergency Management
On agenda: 6/30/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring notification of the departments of buildings, housing preservation and development, environmental protection, and health and mental hygiene whenever the fire department responds to a structural fire, requiring the fire department to assess the damage after any structural fire, and requiring the establishment of guidelines to determine when other agencies are required to provide services after structural fires
Sponsors: Carmen N. De La Rosa, Shekar Krishnan, Jennifer Gutiérrez
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would require the Fire Department (FDNY) and New York City Emergency Management to jointly develop and implement a notification system that would notify the Departments of Buildings (DOB), Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), Environmental Protection (DEP), and Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH), whenever FDNY responds to a structural fire. FDNY would also be required to conduct inspections of an affected unit or building within 48 hours of the occurrence of any structural fire. This bill would also require FDNY to develop guidelines in coordination with DOB, HPD, DEP, and DOHMH to determine when these agencies, or other agencies, would be required to respond and provide additional services, including additional inspections, after a structural fire.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No., 2. Int. No., 3. June 30, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda

Int. No. 1326

 

By Council Members De La Rosa, Krishnan and Gutiérrez

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring notification of the departments of buildings, housing preservation and development,  environmental protection, and health and mental hygiene whenever the fire department responds to a structural fire, requiring the fire department to assess the damage after any structural fire, and requiring the establishment of guidelines to determine when other agencies are required to provide services after structural fires

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 15 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 15-151 to read as follows:

§ 15-151 Fire notification and inspections. a. The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of emergency management, shall develop and implement a fire notification system. Such system shall notify the departments of buildings, housing preservation and development, environmental protection, and health and mental hygiene whenever the department responds to any structural fire. Such system shall be operational no later than 1 year after the effective date of the local law that added this section.

b. Within 48 hours after the department responds to any structural fire, the commissioner shall conduct an inspection to assess the damage caused by the fire to the affected residential unit or building.

c. The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioners of buildings, housing preservation and development,  environmental protection, and health and mental hygiene shall establish guidelines to determine whether the departments of buildings, housing preservation and development, environmental protection, health and mental hygiene or any other agency shall be required to respond and provide services following a structural fire. The guidelines shall be based on the findings of the inspection conducted pursuant to subdivision b of this section and shall address what services will be provided by such agencies, which may include additional inspections, and the time period in which each agency is required to respond, which may not exceed 2 days. The commissioner shall publish such guidelines on the department’s website no later than 1 year after the effective date of the local law that added this section.

d. When the commissioner determines that an additional agency is required to respond under the guidelines established pursuant to subdivision c, the commissioner shall notify the appropriate agency. Such notification shall include the findings of the inspection conducted pursuant to subdivision b of this section.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

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6/25/2025 12:23 PM