Bill Text: NY A08269 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the sale and installation of certain playground equipment and ground covering which contains recycled tires or any equipment which was made in part or in whole using recycled tires.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to tourism, parks, arts and sports development [A08269 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08269-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8269

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 15, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BURKE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development

        AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law  and
          the  general  business  law,  in  relation to prohibiting the sale and
          installation of certain playground equipment and ground covering which
          contains recycled tires or any equipment which was made in part or  in
          whole using recycled tires

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The parks, recreation  and  historic  preservation  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new section 13.33 to read as follows:
     3    §  13.33  Prohibition  on  use  of recycled tires. The office or other
     4  state agency having jurisdiction of any state park, parkway, recreation-
     5  al facility or historic site shall not permit such state park,  parkway,
     6  recreational  facility  or  historic  site to contain any material which
     7  contains recycled tires or any equipment which was made in  part  or  in
     8  whole using recycled tires.
     9    §  2.  Subdivision 2 of section 399-dd of the general business law, as
    10  amended by section 38 of part A of chapter 62 of the laws  of  2011,  is
    11  amended to read as follows:
    12    2.  The department of state, in consultation with the office of parks,
    13  recreation and historic preservation, shall promulgate rules  and  regu-
    14  lations  for  the  design,  installation,  inspection and maintenance of
    15  playgrounds and playground equipment. Those regulations  shall  substan-
    16  tially  comply  with  the guidelines and criteria which are contained in
    17  the handbook for public playground safety produced by the United  States
    18  consumer  products  safety  commission  or  any successor. The rules and
    19  regulations shall include:
    20    (a) special provisions for playgrounds appropriate for children within
    21  the range of ages in day care settings.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13353-02-3
        A. 8269                             2

     1    (b) a prohibition on the sale, installation, and use of  any  material
     2  which  contains  recycled  tires  or  which was made in part or in whole
     3  using recycled tires.
     4    §  3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
     5  law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any
     6  rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act  on  its
     7  effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such
     8  effective date.