Bill Text: NY S00605 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting the release of certain balloons; prohibits a person from knowingly or intentionally releasing outdoors any balloons constructed of electrically conductive material filled with helium or a gas lighter than air; provides exceptions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION [S00605 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00605-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         605--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 5, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Environmental Conservation
          -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
          and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  environmental  conservation law, in relation to
          prohibiting the release of certain balloons

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

     1    Section  1.  The environmental conservation law is amended by adding a
     2  new section 11-0331 to read as follows:
     3  § 11-0331. Release of certain balloons prohibited.
     4    1. No person shall knowingly release  or  intentionally  cause  to  be
     5  released  outdoors  any  balloon  constructed of electrically conductive
     6  material and filled with helium or a gas lighter than air.
     7    2. No person shall knowingly release  or  intentionally  cause  to  be
     8  released outdoors, within a twenty-four hour period, twenty-five or more
     9  balloons  constructed of non-electrically conductive material and filled
    10  with helium or a gas lighter than air.
    11    3. This section shall not apply to:
    12    (a) balloons which are used for the  purpose  of  carrying  scientific
    13  instrumentation  during the performance of an experiment or test or by a
    14  person on behalf of a governmental agency or pursuant to a  governmental
    15  contract for scientific or meteorological purposes; or
    16    (b) manned hot air balloons.
    17    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    18  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02407-02-3