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. LBD02238-03-6