Bill Text: NY A07771 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 7771 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Creates the under-grounding of electrical power or telecommunications lines fund.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A07771 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A07771-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7771
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 4, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MOYA,  GRAF -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Ways and Means
       AN ACT to amend the state finance  law,  in  relation  to  creating  the
         under-grounding of electrical power or telecommunications lines fund
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The state finance law is amended by adding  a  new  section
    2  99-v to read as follows:
    3    S  99-V.  UNDER-GROUNDING  OF  ELECTRICAL  POWER OR TELECOMMUNICATIONS
    4  LINES FUND. 1. THERE IS HEREBY ESTABLISHED IN THE JOINT CUSTODY  OF  THE
    5  STATE COMPTROLLER AND THE COMMISSIONER OF TAXATION AND FINANCE A SPECIAL
    6  REVENUE  FUND TO BE KNOWN AS THE "UNDER-GROUNDING OF ELECTRICAL POWER OR
    7  TELECOMMUNICATIONS LINES FUND".
    8    2. THE FUND SHALL CONSIST OF ALL MONIES APPROPRIATED FOR  ITS  PURPOSE
    9  INCLUDED  BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY FUNDS SUPPLIED BY THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY
   10  MANAGEMENT AGENCY FOR DISASTER RECOVERY AND HAZARD MITIGATION WHICH  MAY
   11  BE USED FOR STATE INFRASTRUCTURE REPAIR.
   12    3.  MONIES  OF THE FUND, WHEN ALLOCATED, SHALL BE DISBURSED TO PROVIDE
   13  FOR THE PURPOSE OF MOVING  OVERHEAD  ELECTRICAL  POWER  OR  TELECOMMUNI-
   14  CATIONS  LINES  UNDERGROUND. UNDER THE FUND COUNTIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES
   15  MAY APPLY FOR REIMBURSEMENT FROM THE FUND TO  CONTRACT  WITH  POWER  AND
   16  TELECOMMUNICATIONS  PROVIDERS  AS  PROVIDED  IN  THIS SECTION. COUNTIES,
   17  TOWNS AND VILLAGES MAY SUPPLY A TWO MAN CREW AND USE OF CERTAIN  PROJECT
   18  NECESSARY  EQUIPMENT  TO  POWER AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROVIDERS FOR THE
   19  PURPOSE OF MOVING OVERHEAD ELECTRICAL POWER OR TELECOMMUNICATIONS  LINES
   20  UNDERGROUND.
   21    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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