Bill Text: NY A02563 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires notice of public work projects to residents in cities with a population of one million or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to cities [A02563 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A02563-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2563
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 16, 2013
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       Introduced by M. of A. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Cities
       AN ACT to amend the general city law, in relation to requiring notice of
         public work projects to residents in certain cities
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The general city law is amended by  adding  a  new  section
    2  18-e to read as follows:
    3    S  18-E. NOTICE OF CONSTRUCTION, REPAIRS, PUBLIC WORK. ANY CITY WITH A
    4  POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR  MORE  SHALL,  WITHIN  THREE  DAYS  OF  ANY
    5  CONSTRUCTION  PROJECT, REPAIR WORK PROJECT OR OTHER PUBLIC WORK PROJECT,
    6  NOTIFY RESIDENTS WITHIN A HALF MILE RADIUS OF THE WORK SITE  WHERE  SUCH
    7  PROJECT  WILL  BE  PERFORMED  OF SUCH PROJECT. SUCH NOTICE SHALL BE MADE
    8  WITH SUFFICIENT SIGNAGE TO READILY NOTIFY SUCH RESIDENTS OF THE EXPECTED
    9  DURATION OF SUCH PROJECT, ANY INTERRUPTION IN UTILITY SERVICES, AND  THE
   10  GENERAL  DETAILS OF THE WORK TO BE PERFORMED.  ANY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT,
   11  REPAIR WORK PROJECT OR OTHER PUBLIC WORK PROJECT TO BE PERFORMED WHICH A
   12  CITY ANTICIPATES WILL BE LESS THAN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS IN  DURATION  SHALL
   13  NOT BE SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION, UNLESS A DISRUPTION IN
   14  A UTILITY SERVICE IS EXPECTED.
   15    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
   16  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01042-01-3