Bill Text: NY A01863 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Restricts the sale, lease, transfer or use of existing outdoor school playgrounds for the construction or renovation of a school building which would eliminate use of such playground space for outdoor recreation unless an alternative plan for outdoor recreation is provided.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-30 - reported referred to rules [A01863 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A01863-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        1863--A
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 12, 2009
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. NOLAN, BRENNAN -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in
         accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,  bill
         amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
         tee
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to restricting the  sale,
         lease,  transfer  or authorization of open-air schoolhouse playgrounds
         for certain uses
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  5 of section 2556 of the education law, such
    2  section as renumbered by chapter 762 of the laws of 1950, is amended  to
    3  read as follows:
    4    5.  It  shall  be  unlawful for a schoolhouse to be constructed in the
    5  city of New York without an open-air playground attached to or  used  in
    6  connection  with  the  same.    EXISTING  PLAYGROUNDS SHALL NOT BE SOLD,
    7  LEASED OR TRANSFERRED, OR PERMANENTLY AUTHORIZED FOR OTHER USES SUCH  AS
    8  SCHOOL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION, RENOVATION, PLACEMENT OR STORAGE OF BUILD-
    9  ING  MATERIALS  FOR SUCH WORK THAT WOULD ELIMINATE THE USE OF SUCH PLAY-
   10  GROUND SPACE FOR OUTDOOR RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES UNLESS  AN  ALTERNATIVE
   11  PLAN  FOR  SUCH  ACTIVITIES  IS ESTABLISHED WHICH PROVIDES SUITABLE  AND
   12  ADEQUATE PLAYGROUND SPACE TO ACCOMMODATE THE PHYSICAL RECREATIONAL NEEDS
   13  OF THE PUPILS OF SUCH BUILDING.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011; provided  however,  that
   15  the  commissioner  of education is authorized and directed to promulgate
   16  any rules or regulations necessary for the timely implementation of this
   17  act on or before such date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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