Bill Text: NY A03245 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to emergency response plans relating to the notification of location of downed wires from a municipal emergency official or individual.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-6)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-11 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [A03245 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03245-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3245

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 22, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SAYEGH, DICKENS, GRIFFIN, GALEF, SIMON, BUTTENS-
          CHON, MONTESANO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Consumer
          Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in  relation  to  the  emergency
          response plans relating to downed wires

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (xi) of paragraph (a)  of  subdivision  21  of
     2  section 66 of the public service law, as added by section 4 of part X of
     3  chapter 57 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (xi)  appropriate  safety  precautions  regarding  electrical hazards,
     5  including plans to promptly secure downed wires within thirty-six  hours
     6  of  notification  of  the location of such downed wires from a municipal
     7  emergency official or individual; and
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02593-01-1
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