Bill Text: NY S06896 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires municipalities to maintain sidewalks abutting streets.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-04 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S06896 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06896-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6896
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 4, 2016
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
        AN ACT to amend the town law, the  second  class  cities  law,  and  the
          general  municipal  law,  in relation to the maintenance of sidewalks;
          and to repeal sections 16-123 and 19-152 of the administrative code of
          the city of New York relating thereto
          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 130 of the town law is amended to
     2  read as follows:
     3    4. Sidewalks. Regulating the manner  of  construction,  reconstruction
     4  and  repair  of  sidewalks, the materials to be used, the grades and the
     5  widths thereof  and  prohibiting  any  construction,  reconstruction  or
     6  repair which does not comply with such regulations[; requiring the owner
     7  and  occupant  of  premises  abutting on any street where a sidewalk has
     8  been laid, to keep the sidewalk in front  of  such  premises,  free  and
     9  clear from snow, ice, dirt and other obstructions and upon default ther-
    10  eof provide for the removal thereof at the expense of the owners of such
    11  premises  and  that  such  charge  shall become a lien upon the premises
    12  benefited thereby, until paid].
    13    § 2. Section 92 of the second class cities law is amended to  read  as
    14  follows:
    15    § 92. Repair  of  sidewalks; removal of snow and ice. The commissioner
    16  of public works shall have full power  and  authority  to  [require  the
    17  owner  of  property  abutting  upon a street to] repair any sidewalk [in
    18  front thereof] abutting upon a street or bring the same to  true  grade,
    19  and to remove the snow and ice therefrom. [Where the owner of such prop-
    20  erty  shall  fail or neglect to repair any sidewalk or bring the same to
    21  true grade for five days after written notice so to do has  been  served
    22  on him, either personally or by delivering the same at his residence, or
    23  if  he  be  a  non-resident by mailing the same to him at his last known
    24  place of residence, or if the name of the owner or his  place  of  resi-
    25  dence can not be ascertained after due diligence, by posting the same in
    26  a  conspicuous  place  upon the premises; or where the owner of any such

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