NYC Council Introduction 1281

intro.nyc/1281-2025 2024-2025 Legislative Session
Deadlines for installing natural gas detectors and to repeal section 8 of local law 157 for the year 2016 relating thereto.
Status: Committee Committee on Housing and Buildings
Sponsored by Eric Dinowitz
Introduced: May 28, 2025

Local law 157 of 2016 required the installation of natural gas alarms in dwelling units on May 1 of the year after the department establishes applicable standards and rules for those alarms. This bill would postpone that mandate and would instead provide that natural gas alarms will be required one year after the department of buildings determines that natural gas alarms are sufficiently available and affordable, but no earlier than January 1, 2027.