Bill Text: NY S02988 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the public service commission to promulgate rules and regulations requiring vine trimming, in addition to other maintenance procedures, for the maintenance of utility poles by the utility company or cable television company that owns such utility pole where such vine growth is likely to disrupt safe and reliable service.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2023-05-30 - SUBSTITUTED BY A343A [S02988 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02988-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2988

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 26, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations

        AN  ACT  to  amend the public service law, in relation to requiring vine
          trimming for the maintenance of utility poles

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

     1    Section  1.  The public service law is amended by adding a new section
     2  119-d to read as follows:
     3    § 119-d. Maintenance of utility poles.  The commission shall  require,
     4  in  addition  to  other maintenance procedures, the trimming of vines on
     5  utility poles throughout the state by the utility company or cable tele-
     6  vision company that owns such utility pole.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
     8  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
     9  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    10  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    11  on or before such effective date.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01136-01-3