Bill Text: NY A03658 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the veterans' memorials preservation act.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 23-3)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to veterans' affairs [A03658 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03658-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          3658

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. MANKTELOW, BRABENEC, SMULLEN, DeSTEFANO, NORRIS,
          MORINELLO, REILLY, SAYEGH,  FRIEND,  TAGUE,  MILLER,  HAWLEY,  COLTON,
          MIKULIN,  J. M. GIGLIO,  RA,  McDONOUGH, K. BROWN, PALMESANO, BARCLAY,
          REYES, DURSO, LEMONDES, TANNOUSIS, ANGELINO -- 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    § 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 state 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    § 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    § 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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