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
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--A 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 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-d to read as follows: 3 § 119-d. Notification to property owners. 1. Prior to beginning any 4 scheduled service that may interfere with a property owner's ability to 5 enjoy, use, or access such property owner's property, a gas corporation, 6 an electric corporation, a gas and electric corporation, a water corpo- 7 ration, a steam corporation, a telegraph corporation, a telephone corpo- 8 ration or a municipality rendering equivalent utility services shall 9 provide notice to such property owner that such service is to be 10 performed. Such notice shall include, but not be limited to, the service 11 to be performed, the expected duration of such service, the location of 12 such service, any road closures or detours that shall occur due to such 13 service, any necessary equipment, including service vehicles, that may 14 intrude upon the property owner's property or interfere with such prop- 15 erty owner's ability to enjoy, use, or access such property owner's 16 property, and the contact information for the corporation or munici- 17 pality performing such service. Notice shall be given as far in advance 18 as circumstances may allow, but shall be given no more than thirty days 19 in advance of the start date of such service and no less than five days 20 in advance of the start of such service. 21 2. A gas corporation, an electric corporation, a gas and electric 22 corporation, a water corporation, a steam corporation, a telegraph EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09978-06-3A. 7515--A 2 1 corporation, a telephone corporation or a municipality rendering equiv- 2 alent utility services subject to the provisions of this section shall 3 provide notice to property owners, in writing or, when appropriate, via 4 electronic transmission and shall further make reasonable efforts to 5 contact property owners prior to beginning any scheduled service that 6 may interfere with a property owner's ability to enjoy, use, or access 7 such property owner's property. 8 3. 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 to property owners, as part of any notice required pursuant to 13 subdivision one or two of this section, direct contact information for 14 any subcontractor being used for such service. 15 4. The provisions of this section shall not apply in the case of a 16 natural or man-made disaster or state of emergency pursuant to article 17 two-B of the executive law, or where the need to provide such notice 18 would prevent the timely installation, restoration or repair of a utili- 19 ty customer's service. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 21 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment 22 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation 23 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 24 completed on or before such effective date.