Bill Text: NY A07515 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7515--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 25, 2023
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        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.
                                                                   LBD09978-07-4
        A. 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.