Bill Text: NY S01141 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 1141 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires all outdoor advertising in cities of over 1,000,000 to be licensed by the department of transportation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-22 - PRINT NUMBER 1141A [S01141 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01141-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         1141--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 8, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation  --  recom-
          mitted  to  the  Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate
          Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend the transportation law, in relation to requiring sign
          properties, in cities having a population of one million or  more,  to
          be licensed by the department of transportation
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The transportation law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  23 to read as follows:
     3    §  23.  Sign  property  licensing;  certain cities. 1. As used in this
     4  section, the following terms shall mean:
     5    (a) "City" means a city having a population of one million or more.
     6    (b) "Maintain" means the maintenance of a sign property including, but
     7  not limited to, the installation, maintenance and removal of on-premises
     8  and off-premises advertising copy on a sign property.
     9    (c) "Sign property" means and includes billboards,  bulletins,  walls-
    10  capes, or any other large format static or digital sign.
    11    2.  No outdoor advertising company shall maintain a sign property in a
    12  city unless the department has issued an outdoor advertising  permit  to
    13  the  company for each such property maintained. Furthermore, the mainte-
    14  nance of a sign property in a city shall only be authorized  during  the
    15  term  of  the  outdoor  advertising permit issued therefor.  City resol-
    16  utions, local laws, and ordinances,  including  zoning  laws  and  regu-
    17  lations, relative to the location, siting, or use of a sign property are
    18  hereby preempted, and a sign property may be installed and/or maintained
    19  upon  receipt of a permit issued by the department.  Notwithstanding the
    20  terms of this provision, nothing in this section shall be interpreted to
    21  prevent enforcement by the New York city department of buildings of  its
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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