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type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to violations of the uniform fire prevention and building code"
description: "Provides that in addition to any other applicable remedy or penalty, where a building has been altered in violation of any provision of the uniform code or any lawful order obtained thereunder, and such alteration impedes a person's egress from such building during a fire or other emergency evacuation, the owner of such building, and any builder, architect, contractor, subcontractor or construction superintendent, or agent thereof who has knowledge of such alteration, or an owner who reasonably should have had knowledge of such alteration based on either an inspection or repair of a leased premises with consent from the tenant, shall be subject to a civil penalty of up to seven thousand five hundred dollars."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2021-2022"
identifier: "S 881"
citation: "New York S 881 (2021-2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["BROOKS"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2021-01-06"
last_action: "2021-02-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e8bcf4f-b7b3-4e77-a6e5-a9ca8d0a0396"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2021/S881"
source_hash: "0052f85cf923932243d97f76e5791a65fa44942cd71a10c13a4e91ce2d773b99"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---
# New York S 881 (2021-2022) — Relates to violations of the uniform fire prevention and building code
Provides that in addition to any other applicable remedy or penalty, where a building has been altered in violation of any provision of the uniform code or any lawful order obtained thereunder, and such alteration impedes a person's egress from such building during a fire or other emergency evacuation, the owner of such building, and any builder, architect, contractor, subcontractor or construction superintendent, or agent thereof who has knowledge of such alteration, or an owner who reasonably should have had knowledge of such alteration based on either an inspection or repair of a leased premises with consent from the tenant, shall be subject to a civil penalty of up to seven thousand five hundred dollars.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **S881** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S881&term=2021&Text=Y)
## Votes
- Floor Vote — **61–2** (pass) · upper
- Rules Vote — **17–4** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **124–24** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- BROOKS — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-01-06** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-11** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.34
- **2021-01-19** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2021-01-19** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2021-01-19** REFERRED TO CODES `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-08** SUBSTITUTED FOR A964
- **2021-02-08** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.66
- **2021-02-10** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2021-02-10** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2021-02-12** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2021-02-16** SIGNED CHAP.47 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6e8bcf4f-b7b3-4e77-a6e5-a9ca8d0a0396`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).