S 10379 NY
Relates to the location of fire hydrants
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Summary
This bill requires the Office of Fire Prevention and Control to establish a state database containing the latitude and longitude coordinates with centimeter precision for every fire hydrant in New York, formatted as a CSV file for use with GPS location services and Google Maps as a map overlay. All municipal corporations and private entities must provide the coordinates for every fire hydrant under their control to the office and submit updates within 180 days of every installation and maintenance cycle. The database must be compatible with Google Maps to enable the public to view the exact locations of fire hydrants. The act takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.
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Official abstract
Requires the office of fire prevention and control to establish a state database of every fire hydrant latitude and longitude coordinates; requires every municipal corporation or private entity to provide such coordinates to the office.
Sponsor (1)
- Steve Rhoads Republican · primary
Action history (1)
- May 15, 2026 REFERRED TO FINANCE · upper
Text versions (2)
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Bill No.: Summary Actions Committee Votes Floor Votes Memo Text LFIN Chamber Video/Transcript S10379 Summary: BILL NO S10379   SAME AS No Same As   SPONSOR RHOADS   COSPNSR   MLTSPNSR   Amd §§155-a & 156, Exec L   Requires the office of fire prevention and control to establish a state database of every fire hydrant latitude and longitude coordinates; requires every municipal corporation or private entity to provide such coordinates to the office.
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STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________
10379
IN SENATE
May 15, 2026 ___________
Introduced by Sen. RHOADS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the location of fire hydrants
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 155-a of the executive law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 6 to read as follows: 3 6. "Office" shall mean the office of fire prevention and control. 4 § 2. Subdivision 18 of section 156 of the executive law, as added by 5 chapter 543 of the laws of 1983 and as renumbered by chapter 615 of the 6 laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows: 7 18. Establish rules and regulations as to the location and design of a 8 delineator used to mark the location of fire hydrants. Such rules and 9 regulations shall include, but not be limited to: 10 (a) establishing a state database of every fire hydrant latitude and 11 longitude coordinates with centimeter precision for each fire hydrant 12 that can be exported as a CSV file to be used with GPS location services 13 as a map overlay; 14 (b) requiring every municipal corporation or private entity to provide 15 the coordinates required pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision 16 for every fire hydrant under its control to the office and provide any 17 updates to the office within one hundred eighty days of every installa- 18 tion and maintenance cycle; and 19 (c) creating a CSV spreadsheet file that is compatible for use with 20 Google maps to create an overlay onto Google maps in order to provide 21 the exact location of fire hydrants. 22 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 23 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13574-01-5
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