Bill Text: NY A00320 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the declaration of a sign as a public nuisance and its removal by order of the commissioner.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to cities [A00320 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00320-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           320
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, ARROYO, MOSLEY, DINOWITZ, M. G. MILL-
          ER, GOTTFRIED -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, LENTOL, SIMON --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Cities
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
          relation to the declaration of a sign as a public nuisance
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Section 28-503.1 of the administrative code of the city of
     2  New York, as added by local law number 33 of the city of  New  York  for
     3  the year 2007, is amended to read as follows:
     4    § 28-503.1 General. A sign with a surface area greater than 200 square
     5  feet  (19  m{2}) that is erected, maintained, attached, affixed, painted
     6  on, or in any other manner represented on  a  building  or  premises  in
     7  violation of the zoning resolution, this code, the 1968 building code or
     8  rules  adopted  pursuant  thereto  is  hereby  declared  to  be a public
     9  nuisance. The commissioner [may] shall, after notice and hearing,  order
    10  the  removal of such illegal sign [or] and its sign structure [or both],
    11  if applicable, as hereinafter provided.
    12    § 2. The commissioner of buildings shall immediately order the removal
    13  of any sign and its sign structure that has previously been deemed ille-
    14  gal.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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