N.Y. Executive Law § 377: New York state uniform fire prevention and building code

§ 377. New York state uniform fire prevention and building code. 1.

The council shall formulate a uniform fire prevention and building code

which shall take effect on the first day of January, nineteen hundred

eighty-four. The council may from time to time amend particular

provisions of the uniform code and shall periodically review the entire

code to assure that it effectuates the purposes of this article and the

specific objectives and standards hereinafter set forth. The secretary

shall conduct public hearings on said uniform code and any amendment

thereto. The secretary shall review such code or amendment, together

with any changes incorporated by the council as a result of such

hearings, to insure that it effectuates the purposes of this article.

Upon being so satisfied, the secretary shall approve said code or

amendment prior to its becoming effective.

2. The uniform fire prevention and building code shall:

a. provide reasonably uniform standards and requirements for

construction and construction materials for public and private

buildings, including factory manufactured homes, consonant with accepted

standards of engineering and fire prevention practices;

b. formulate such standards and requirements, so far as may be

practicable, in terms of performance objectives, so as to make adequate

performance for the use intended the test of acceptability;

c. permit to the fullest extent feasible, use of modern technical

methods, devices and improvements which tend to reduce the cost of

construction without substantially affecting reasonable requirements for

the health, safety and security of the occupants or users of buildings;

d. encourage, so far as may be practicable, the standardization of

construction practices, methods, equipment, material and techniques; and

e. eliminate restrictive, obsolete, conflicting and unnecessary

building regulations and requirements which tend to increase

unnecessarily construction costs or retard unnecessarily the use of new

materials, or provide unwarranted preferential treatment to types or

classes of material or products or methods of construction.