Bill Text: NY A00480 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 480

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that the department of transportation shall not require a survey as part of an agreement with any fiber optic utility for use and occupancy of a state right of way for the purposes of installing, modifying, relocating, repairing, operating, or maintaining fiber optic facilities as part of the department's consolidated application, when such use and occupancy of the state right of way is utilizing existing infrastructure, including but not limited to aerial pole attachments and underground conduits.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-3)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to transportation [A00480 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00480-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           480

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PAULIN, BURDICK, KELLES, LUPARDO, BUTTENSCHON,
          GLICK, JACOBSON, ANGELINO, GALLAHAN, TAGUE -- read once  and  referred
          to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to the department of trans-
          portation not requiring surveying in certain situations

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 10 of the highway law is amended by  adding  a  new
     2  subdivision 24-e to read as follows:
     3    24-e. The commissioner shall not require a survey as part of an agree-
     4  ment with any fiber optic utility for use and occupancy of a state right
     5  of way for the purposes of installing, modifying, relocating, repairing,
     6  operating,  or maintaining fiber optic facilities as part of the depart-
     7  ment's consolidated application, when such  use  and  occupancy  of  the
     8  state  right  of way is utilizing existing infrastructure, including but
     9  not limited to aerial pole attachments and underground conduits.
    10    § 2. 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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