N.Y. Multiple Residence Law § 16: Multiple residence emergency information

§ 16. Multiple residence emergency information. 1. In the case of an

emergency affecting a multiple residence, the owner or agent of such

multiple residence shall provide emergency service personnel, upon the

request of such emergency service personnel, including but not limited

to local police and fire departments, with the names and contact

information of all affected residents or occupants as listed in the

lease of such multiple residence as is required to ascertain the safety

of such residents or occupants. For the purposes of this section, an

emergency shall include but not be limited to fires, gas leaks, building

collapses, natural disasters, acts of terrorism and other events where

the physical safety of residents must be accounted for by ascertaining

their whereabouts.

2. The owner or agent of such multiple residence shall update the list

of names and contact information of all affected residents or occupants

of such multiple residence upon the execution of a new lease, lease

renewal or lease amendment, or where such owner is an authority as such

term is defined in section three of the public housing law, including

all such authorities established after the first day of January,

nineteen hundred thirty-nine, upon annual recertification. Specific and

informed written consent shall be obtained by the owner or agent of the

multiple residence from each occupant or resident each time the list is

updated and no occupant's or resident's name or contact information

shall be included in such list without their specific and informed

written consent. Written notice shall be provided to the occupant or

resident about the contact list and shall include but not be limited to

that such list is maintained by the owner and the potential impact of

opting-out.

3. Such list of names and contact information shall only be maintained

for the purpose of an emergency evacuation and shall not be

disseminated, used or accessed by emergency services personnel or

disseminated, used or accessed by the owner or agent of such multiple

residence for any other purposes.