Stove Knob Covers HPD
HPD Stove Knob Covers
Property owners must provide stove knob covers for gas-powered stoves where they know or reasonably should know that a child under the age of six resides, unless there are no compatible knobs for the stove. Changes to the law beginning in January 2023 require property owners to provide tenants with annual notice regarding the tenantʼs ability to request, in writing, either stove knob covers or permanent stove safety knobs with locking mechanisms for gas-powered stoves.
Stove Knob Covers -- an important fire prevention tool -- make stove knobs on gas-powered stoves inaccessible to children.
Local Law 117 requires that the property owner of multiple dwellings provide stove knob covers for gas-powered stoves where the owner knows or reasonably should know that a child under six years of age resides.
Owner Requirements
Local Law 117 requires that the property owner of multiple dwellings provide stove knob covers for gas-powered stoves where the owner knows or reasonably should know that a child under six years of age resides. Property owners must also provide stove knob covers in a unit without a child under age six if the tenant requests them.
In owner-occupied coops and condos, stove knob covers are not required. However, if it is a tenant-occupied coop or condo, stove knob covers are required if there is a child under age six or the tenant requests them.
Property owners are also required to provide tenants with an Annual Notice which must inform tenants that:
- Stove knob covers will be made available within thirty days of distributing the annual notice;
- The owner must provide stove knob covers to any household that requests them, regardless of whether a child resides in the unit; and
- Tenants can forego stove knob covers through written refusal to the landlord. If a tenant does not submit written refusal to the owner, the owner is still obligated to provide stove knob covers to any household where the owner knows or reasonably should know that a child under age six resides.
Tenants should contact their property owner and request stove knob covers. Tenants can forego stove knob covers through written refusal to the landlord.
Violations
Failure to provide documented proof on the availability of stove knob covers upon request from HPD will result in a Class B hazardous violation. Exceptions will be granted to owners that provide documented proof that they have already fulfilled two requests for replacement stove knob covers within the previous year or that there are no available stove knob covers that are compatible with the knobs on their dwelling units’ stoves.
Effective Date: June 30, 2022
Administrative Code section 27-2056.4 provides that owners of multiple dwellings must annually inform tenants that they may request stove knob covers for gas stoves. Recent amendments to section 27-2056.4 by Local Law 44 of 2022, added that tenants may request either stove knob covers, or permanent stove safety knobs with integrated locking mechanisms.
Tenants must affirmatively request either device in writing to the owner after receiving the required annual notice. The owner does not have to provide either the stove knob covers or the permanent stove safety knobs if there is no such available device for the stove, if the owner has already fulfilled two requests for replacement of such devices within the previous year, or if the owner has not received a request for installation of such devices.
Owners must keep a record of providing the annual notice, written tenant responses, units for which devices were provided, and a list of requests for such devices. Owners must also document where requests were made for stove knob covers or permanent stove safety knobs with integrated locking mechanisms but not provided because there was no such available device for the stove.
Stove Knob Covers (December 6 2018)
Effective December 6th, 2018, per Local Law 117 , the owner of a multiple dwelling must provide stove knob covers for gas-powered stoves where the owner knows or reasonably should know that a child under six years of age resides. Owners must also provide stove knob covers in a unit without a child under age six if the tenant requests them. Please note that for owner-occupied coops and condos stove knob covers are not required. However, if it’s a tenant-occupied coop or condo, stove knob covers are required if there is a child under age six or the tenant requests them.
In addition, the owner is required to provide tenants with an annual notice. The annual notice must inform tenants that:
- stove knob covers will be made available within thirty days of distributing the annual notice;
- the owner must provide stove knob covers to any household that requests them, regardless of whether a child resides in the unit; and
- tenants can forego stove knob covers through written refusal to the landlord. If a tenant does not submit written refusal to the owner, the owner is still obligated to provide stove knob covers to any household where the owner knows or reasonably should know that a child under age six resides.
It is the owner’s obligation to keep documented proof of any notification of refusal for stove knob covers, notification from dwelling units that requested stove knob covers, and documented proof that the owner attempted to provide stove knob covers to a household where the owner knows or reasonably should know that a child under age six resides.
Failure to provide documented proof on the availability of stove knob covers upon request from HPD will result in a class B hazardous violation. Exceptions will be granted to owners that provide documented proof that they have already fulfilled two requests for replacement stove knob covers within the previous year or that there are no available stove knob covers that are compatible with the knobs on their dwelling units’ stoves.
§ 27-2046.4 Stovetop protection.
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