Bill Text: NY A01563 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires digital billboards to display each image for at least 60 consecutive seconds.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to economic development [A01563 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01563-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          1563
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 15, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Economic Development
        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to  digital  bill-
          boards
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  397-b to read as follows:
     3    § 397-b. Digital billboards. No billboard projecting a  digital  image
     4  shall  display  any  single  image,  display, picture, frame, message or
     5  design for a period of less than sixty consecutive seconds for each such
     6  image, display, picture, frame, message or design. For the  purposes  of
     7  this  section,  the  term "billboard" shall include any billboard, sign,
     8  notice, poster, display or other stationary device intended  to  attract
     9  or which does attract the attention of operators of motor vehicles.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    11  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03231-01-9
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