Bill Text: NY A07515 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires corporations and municipalities to notify property owners prior to beginning services that may interfere with a property owner's ability to use, or access such owner's property; requires notice to include direct contact information for any subcontractor being used for such services; exempts cases where a natural or man-made disaster or state of emergency occurs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-04 - ordered to third reading rules cal.394 [A07515 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A07515-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7515--B 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 25, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring corpo- rations and municipalities to notify property owners prior to begin- ning certain services The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 2 119-e to read as follows: 3 § 119-e. Notification to property owners. 1. Prior to beginning any 4 scheduled service that may interfere with a property owner's ability to 5 use, or access such owner's property, a gas corporation, an electric 6 corporation, a gas and electric corporation, a water corporation, a 7 steam corporation, a telegraph corporation, a telephone corporation or a 8 municipality rendering equivalent utility services shall provide notice 9 to such property owner that such service is to be performed. Such notice 10 shall include, but not be limited to, the service to be performed, the 11 expected duration of such service, the location of such service, any 12 road closures or detours that shall occur due to such service, any 13 necessary equipment, including service vehicles, that may intrude upon 14 the property owner's property or interfere with such property owner's 15 ability to use, or access such property owner's property, and the 16 contact information for the corporation or municipality performing such 17 service. Notice shall be given as far in advance as circumstances may 18 allow, but shall be given no more than thirty days in advance of the 19 start date of such service and no less than five days in advance of the EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09978-07-4A. 7515--B 2 1 start of such service. Notice shall be provided to property owners 2 whose property boundaries are adjacent to such work to be performed, and 3 any other property owner such as a gas corporation, an electric corpo- 4 ration, a gas and electric corporation, a water corporation, a steam 5 corporation, a telegraph corporation, a telephone corporation or a muni- 6 cipality rendering equivalent utility services believes will be directly 7 impacted by such service to be performed. 8 2. A gas corporation, an electric corporation, a gas and electric 9 corporation, a water corporation, a steam corporation, a telegraph 10 corporation, a telephone corporation or a municipality rendering equiv- 11 alent utility services subject to the provisions of this section shall 12 provide notice to property owners, in writing or, when appropriate, via 13 electronic transmission and shall further make reasonable efforts to 14 contact property owners prior to beginning any scheduled service that 15 may interfere with a property owner's ability to use, or access such 16 property owner's property. 17 3. A gas corporation, an electric corporation, a gas and electric 18 corporation, a water corporation, a steam corporation, a telegraph 19 corporation, a telephone corporation or a municipality rendering equiv- 20 alent utility services subject to the provisions of this section shall 21 provide to property owners, as part of any notice required pursuant to 22 subdivision one or two of this section, direct contact information for 23 any subcontractor being used for such service. 24 4. The provisions of this section shall not apply in the case of a 25 natural or man-made disaster or state of emergency pursuant to article 26 two-B of the executive law, or where the need to provide such notice 27 would prevent the timely installation, restoration or repair of a utili- 28 ty customer's service. Additionally, the provisions of this section 29 shall not apply to work scheduled at the request of the customer if the 30 utility has provided the customer written notice of the scheduled date. 31 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 32 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment 33 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation 34 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 35 completed on or before such effective date.