Bill Text: NY S04897 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the restriction and regulation of advertising devices; increases the number of advertising billboard signs in the city of New Rochelle along interstate route ninety-five from six to nine.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-11-20 - SIGNED CHAP.489 [S04897 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04897-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4897
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 23, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sens. STEWART-COUSINS, LATIMER -- read twice and ordered
         printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
         portation
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  authorities  law,  in  relation  to the
         restriction and regulation of advertising devices
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4 of section 361-a of the public authorities
    2  law, as added by chapter 593 of the laws of 1952 and  paragraph  (d)  as
    3  amended  by  chapter  169  of  the  laws  of 2003, is amended to read as
    4  follows:
    5    4. To effectuate the purposes of this section, the authority may limit
    6  the application of  any  regulation  adopted  hereunder  to  exclude  or
    7  include, in whole or in part:
    8    (a)  Specified  areas of the thruway system based upon use, population
    9  density,  nature  of  the  surrounding  community,  special   conditions
   10  prevailing therein, or such other factors as may make differentiation or
   11  separate classification or regulation necessary, proper or desirable;
   12    (b)  Particular  types  or  classes  of advertising devices based upon
   13  size, design, lighting or such other factors as may make differentiation
   14  or separate classification or regulation necessary, proper or desirable;
   15    (c) The erection or maintenance of advertising devices  on  particular
   16  sections or portions of the thruway system.
   17    (d)  Notwithstanding  any  contrary  provisions  of  this section, the
   18  authority shall permit the erection of not more than [six] NINE   adver-
   19  tising  billboard  signs  in  the  city of New Rochelle along interstate
   20  route ninety-five where the location and erection of such signs are:
   21    (1) consistent with  and  part  of  an  urban  renewal  program  which
   22  decreases the total number of advertising billboard signs in the renewal
   23  area;
   24    (2) approved by such city;
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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    1    (3)  part  of the subject of a United States District Court settlement
    2  order regarding the regulation of such signs within such city; and
    3    (4) consistent with the size, lighting, spacing and all other require-
    4  ments  of  federal  law,  including  those established in the agreements
    5  entered into by the state pursuant to sections  eighty-six  and  eighty-
    6  eight of the highway law.
    7    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.