Clifton Park NY Homes for Sale

Amanda's Law

Amanda's Law goes into effect on February 21, 2010.  The law is named for a Western New York teen who died from carbon monoxide poisoning while sleeping over at a friend's home.  Please protect your family and loved one's by purchasing an updated carbon monoxide detector.

Below is the exact language of the law.

"Standards for installation of carbon monoxide detectors requiring that every one or two-family dwelling or any dwelling accommodation located in a building owned as a condominium or cooperative in the state or any multiple dwellings shall have installed an operable carbon monoxide detector of such manufacture, design and installation standards as are established by the council. Carbon monoxide detectors required by this section are required only where the dwelling unit has appliances, devices or systems that may emit carbon monoxide or has an attached garage. For purposes of this subdivision, multiple dwelling means a dwelling which is either rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied, or is occupied as the temporary or permanent residence or home of three or more families living independently of each other, including but not limited to the following: a tenement, flat house, maisonette apartment, apartment house, apartment hotel, tourist house, bachelor apartment, studio apartment, duplex apartment, kitchenette apartment, hotel, lodging house, rooming house, boarding house, boarding and nursery school, furnished room house, club, sorority house, fraternity house, college and school dormitory, convalescent, old age or nursing homes or residences. It shall also include a dwelling, two or more stories in height and with five or more boarders, roomers or lodgers residing with any one family. New construction shall mean a new facility or a separate building added to an existing facility."

Complete details can be found at http://dos.state.ny.us/code/COAlarm.htm#amandalaw