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1 AMENDMENT TO SENATE BILL 1537
2 AMENDMENT NO. . Amend Senate Bill 1537, AS AMENDED,
3 with reference to page and line numbers of Senate Amendment
4 No. 1, on page 1, by replacing lines 6 through 17 with the
5 following:
6 "Section 5. Scope of the Act. This Act does not apply
7 within a municipality with a population of over 1,000,000
8 that, before the effective date of this Act, has adopted an
9 ordinance establishing emergency procedures for high rise
10 buildings.
11 Section 10. Emergency evacuation plan for persons with
12 disabilities required. By January 1, 2004, every high rise
13 building owner must establish and maintain an emergency
14 evacuation plan for disabled occupants of the building who
15 have notified the owner of their need for assistance. As used
16 in this Act, "high rise building" means any building 80 feet
17 or more in height. The owner is responsible for maintaining
18 and updating the plan as necessary to ensure that the plan
19 continues to comply with the provisions of this Act.
20 Section 15. Plan requirements.
21 (a) Each plan must establish procedures for evacuating
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1 persons with disabilities from the building in the event of
2 an emergency, when those persons have notified the owner of
3 their need for assistance."; and
4 on page 2, by replacing line 2 with "building. It is the
5 intent of this Act that these"; and
6 on page 3, line 1, by replacing "15." with "20."; and
7 on page 3, line 9, after "the", by inserting "appropriate
8 evacuation procedures portions of the"; and
9 on page 3, below line 19, by inserting the following:
10 "Section 25. Penalty. Failure to comply with any Section
11 of this Act is a petty offense punishable by a fine of
12 $500.".