Bill Text: NY A06278 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6278

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires the safe removal of icicles from buildings abutting paved sidewalks and creates civil and criminal penalties appertaining thereto.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A06278 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06278-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6278

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. BROOK-KRASNY -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to icicle removal

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

     1    Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 270.41 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 270.41 Icicle removal.
     4    1. Every owner, lessee, tenant,  occupant,  or  other  person,  having
     5  charge  of  any building or lot of ground abutting upon any street where
     6  the sidewalk is paved shall, within  three  days  of  the  formation  of
     7  icicles  on such building, cause those icicles overhanging entranceways,
     8  exitways, and other commonly used pathways to be safely removed.
     9    2. Anyone who knowingly violates any term of subdivision one  of  this
    10  section  shall constitute a civil penalty in the amount of three hundred
    11  dollars for the first violation and five hundred dollars for the  second
    12  violation. A third and subsequent violation shall constitute a misdemea-
    13  nor  except that a seventh and subsequent violation or a violation lead-
    14  ing to physical injury or property damage shall  constitute  a  class  E
    15  felony.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10289-01-3