Bill Text: NY S06896 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 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 owner7and occupant of premises abutting on any street where a sidewalk has8been laid, to keep the sidewalk in front of such premises, free and9clear from snow, ice, dirt and other obstructions and upon default ther-10eof provide for the removal thereof at the expense of the owners of such11premises and that such charge shall become a lien upon the premises12benefited 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 the17owner of property abutting upon a street to] repair any sidewalk [in18front 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-20erty shall fail or neglect to repair any sidewalk or bring the same to21true grade for five days after written notice so to do has been served22on him, either personally or by delivering the same at his residence, or23if he be a non-resident by mailing the same to him at his last known24place of residence, or if the name of the owner or his place of resi-25dence can not be ascertained after due diligence, by posting the same in26a conspicuous place upon the premises; or where the owner of any suchEXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13151-01-5