Bill Text: NY A02403 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the veterans' memorials preservation act.

Sponsorship: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 27-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to veterans' affairs [A02403 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A02403-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2403
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 18, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK, PHEFFER, LAVINE, COLTON, LUPARDO, WEISEN-
         BERG,  TITONE,  SCHROEDER,  GUNTHER,  JAFFEE,  COOK, LATIMER, MILLMAN,
         MAGNARELLI, ORTIZ, ROBINSON, CASTRO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.
         ABBATE, CASTELLI, GABRYSZAK, GALEF, MAGEE, McDONOUGH, McENENY, REILLY,
         SWEENEY  --  read  once  and  referred  to  the Committee on Veterans'
         Affairs
       AN ACT establishing the veterans' memorials preservation act
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
    2  the "veterans' memorials preservation act".
    3    S 2. Definitions. For the purposes of this act:
    4    (a) a "memorial" is any park, monument, field,  open  land,  grove  of
    5  trees,  building, structure, artwork, tablet, plaque, wall, or any other
    6  structure that has been donated to, or constructed by, a  public  entity
    7  as a memorial to veterans of any war, conflict, or police action engaged
    8  in  by  the  armed forces of the United States, or any one of the United
    9  States, or the New York national guard.
   10    (b) a "public entity" is any governmental body of any kind, including,
   11  but not limited to, the state, a city, town,  village,  borough,  school
   12  district, or public authority.
   13    S 3.  Memorials  shall be preserved and be open to the public. (a) Any
   14  public entity that has created or received a gift of  a  memorial  shall
   15  not  alter,  destroy,  reconfigure, adjust, change, modify, or move such
   16  memorial, or cause or permit any person to commit such  acts;  provided,
   17  however, that such acts are permitted when reasonably necessary.
   18    (b)  Any  public entity that has created a memorial or accepted a gift
   19  of a memorial shall maintain the memorial in a reasonable manner.
   20    (c) A public entity shall not restrict access to a memorial except  as
   21  reasonably necessary.
   22    S 4. 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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