Bill Text: NY A06354 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 6354 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Increases penalties relating to the protection of underground facilities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-06-19 - REFERRED TO RULES [A06354 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A06354-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6354
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 15, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. NOLAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Economic Development
       AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to increasing  the
         penalties  for  failure  to  comply  with  provisions  relating to the
         protection of underground facilities law
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 765 of the general
    2  business law, as amended by chapter 685 of the laws of 1994, is  amended
    3  to read as follows:
    4    a.  Failure to comply with any provision of this article shall subject
    5  an excavator or an operator to a civil penalty of up to [one] FIVE thou-
    6  sand dollars for the first violation and up  to  an  additional  [seven]
    7  FIFTEEN  thousand  [five  hundred] dollars for each succeeding violation
    8  which occurs in connection with the entire self-same excavation or demo-
    9  lition activity within a two month period.
   10    S 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD09850-01-1