New Council Bill Seeks To Regulate Air-Conditioners

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The city’s regulations on air-conditioning units isn’t keeping up with changing technology, a City Council member of the Upper West Side, Gale Brewer, says.

Ms. Brewer is putting a new bill before the council that she says will create more modern rules around air-conditioning units by taking into account new models in smaller sizes.

Ms. Brewer said constituents in her district have been ticketed for mounting air-conditioners that were not secured by brackets, even though smaller air conditioning units don’t appear to need them. A department spokeswoman said the building code does not require brackets to hold air-conditioning units, but added that department encourages using them.


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