§ 370 Short title
§ 371 Statement of legislative findings and purposes
§ 372 Definitions
§ 373 Required immediate applicability of existing state codes
§ 373-A Code comparison study and report
§ 374 State fire prevention and building code council
§ 375 Powers of the council
§ 376 Powers of the secretary
§ 376-A Code enforcement training and certification
§ 377 New York state uniform fire prevention and building code
§ 378 Standards for New York state uniform fire prevention and building code
§ 379 Incorporation of higher standards by council upon recommendation of local government; local building regulations
§ 380 Granting authority
§ 381 Administration and enforcement of the New York state uniform fire prevention and building code and the New York state energy conservation construction code
§ 381 Administration and enforcement of the New York state uniform fire prevention and building code and the New York state energy conservation construction code
§ 382 Remedies
§ 382-A Buildings with truss type construction; notice requirements and enforcement
§ 382-B Residential buildings with truss type, pre-engineered wood or timber construction; notice requirements
§ 383 Construction with other laws; severability

Terms Used In New York Laws > Executive > Article 18 - New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code Act

  • Administrator: means the state fire administrator established pursuant to article six-C of this chapter. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
  • Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
  • Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Areas of public assembly: means all buildings or portions of buildings used for gathering together fifty or more persons for amusement, athletic, civic, dining, educational, entertainment, patriotic, political, recreational, religious, social, or similar purposes, the entire fire area of which they are a part, and the means of egress therefrom. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
  • board: means a community services board for services to individuals with mental illness and developmental disabilities, those suffering from alcoholism, alcohol abuse, substance abuse or substance dependence. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 41.03
  • Building: means a combination of any materials, whether portable or fixed, having a roof, to form a structure affording shelter for persons, animals or property. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
  • capital costs: means the costs of a local government, a voluntary agency, or the facilities development corporation with respect to the acquisition of real property estates, interests, and cooperative interests in realty, their design, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation and improvement, original furnishings and equipment, site development, and appurtenances of a local facility. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 41.03
  • code: means the New York state uniform fire prevention and building code promulgated pursuant to section three hundred seventy-seven of this article. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
  • Construction: means the construction, reconstruction, alteration, conversion, repair, installation of equipment or use of buildings, and requirements or standards relating to or affecting materials used in connection therewith, including provisions for safety and sanitary conditions. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
  • Council: means the state fire prevention and building code council created by this article. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
  • Department: means the department of state. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
  • director: means the director of community services, who is the chief executive officer of a local governmental unit, by whatever title known. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 41.03
  • Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
  • Equipment: means plumbing, heating, electrical, ventilating, air conditioning, refrigerating equipment, elevators, dumb waiters, escalators and other mechanical additions or installations. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
  • Fire area: means the floor area of a story of a building within exterior walls, party walls, fire walls, or any combination thereof. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
  • Fire protection equipment and systems: means apparatus, assemblies, or systems, either portable or fixed, for use to detect, prevent, control, or extinguish fire. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
  • Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
  • Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
  • Local government: means a village, town (outside the area of any incorporated village) or city. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
  • local governmental unit: means the unit of local government given authority in accordance with this chapter by local government to provide local services. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 41.03
  • local services: includes services for individuals with mental illness or developmental disabilities whose conditions, including but not limited to cerebral palsy and epilepsy, are associated with mental disabilities, and those suffering from alcoholism, alcohol abuse, substance abuse or substance dependence, which are provided by a local government or by a voluntary agency pursuant to a contract with a local governmental unit or the office of mental health. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 41.03
  • Means of egress: means a continuous unobstructed way of exit from any point in a building or structure to a public way. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
  • Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
  • net operating costs: means operating costs from which have been deducted the following:
    (a) revenues for operating costs received from other state agencies or another local government pursuant to an agreement to purchase local services. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 41.03
  • Office: means the office of fire prevention and control created pursuant to article six-C of this chapter. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
  • operating costs: means expenditures, excluding capital costs, incurred in the operation and maintenance of the community mental health, developmental disabilities, and alcoholism services board and of local facilities in accordance with this article and the regulations of the commissioner, by a local government or by a voluntary agency pursuant to a contract with a local governmental unit. See N.Y. Mental Hygiene Law 41.03
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • Secretary: means the secretary of state. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
  • State agency: means any department, bureau, commission, board, public authority or other agency of the state, including any public benefit corporation any member of whose board is appointed by the governor. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Temporary greenhouse: means specialized agricultural equipment having a framework covered with demountable polyurethane materials or materials of polyurethane nature and lacking a permanent and continuous foundation, which is specifically designed, constructed and used for the culture and propagation of horticultural commodities. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Truss type construction: means a fabricated structure of wood or steel, made up of a series of members connected at their ends to form a series of triangles to span a distance greater than would be possible with any of the individual members on their own. See N.Y. Executive Law 372
  • Uphold: The decision of an appellate court not to reverse a lower court decision.