Bill Text: NY S08025 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits residential and commercial properties from erecting or installing digital billboards or signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving lights near certain Mitchell-Lama housing within a city with a population of one million or more; relates to the effectiveness thereof.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2024-02-07 - SIGNED CHAP.66 [S08025 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08025-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8025

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 5, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the general business law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
          residential  and  commercial  properties  from  erecting or installing
          digital billboards or signs that use flashing, intermittent or  moving
          lights  near  certain Mitchell-Lama housing; and to amend a chapter of
          the laws of 2023 amending the general business law relating to prohib-
          iting residential and commercial  properties  from  operating  digital
          billboards  or  signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving lights
          near certain Mitchell-Lama housing, as proposed in  legislative  bills
          numbers S.1931-B and A.7456-A, in relation to the effectiveness there-
          of

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

     1    Section 1. Section 397-b of the general business law, as  added  by  a
     2  chapter  of  the laws of 2023 amending the general business law relating
     3  to prohibiting residential  and  commercial  properties  from  operating
     4  digital  billboards  or  signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving
     5  lights near certain Mitchell-Lama housing, as  proposed  in  legislative
     6  bills numbers S.1931-B and A.7456-A, is amended to read as follows:
     7    § 397-b. Digital billboards. 1. All residential and commercial proper-
     8  ty  within  [fifteen  hundred]  one  thousand feet of a building used as
     9  Mitchell-Lama housing with no fewer than ten  thousand  units  within  a
    10  city  with  a population of one million or more shall be prohibited from
    11  [operating] erecting or installing, after the  effective  date  of  this
    12  section,  a  digital  billboard  or other type of billboard or sign that
    13  uses flashing, intermittent or moving lights, and  from  operating  such
    14  billboard.  In  cities  with  a  population  of one million or more, the
    15  provisions of this section may be enforced concurrently  by  the  corpo-
    16  ration counsel or other lawful designee of such city.
    17    2.  As used in this section, the term "digital billboard" shall mean a
    18  one or multi-sided outdoor advertising sign that displays digital images
    19  using light-emitting diode technology or any such similar technology.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    [3. Any municipality with property described under subdivision one  of
     2  this  section  may, by local law, expressly restrict or prohibit the use
     3  of outdoor advertising signage within fifteen hundred feet  of  residen-
     4  tial property.
     5    4. A violation of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a
     6  civil  penalty of one thousand dollars for the first violation, and five
     7  thousand dollars for all subsequent violations.]
     8    § 2.  Section 2 of a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the  general
     9  business  law relating to prohibiting residential and commercial proper-
    10  ties from operating digital  billboards  or  signs  that  use  flashing,
    11  intermittent  or  moving  lights  near certain Mitchell-Lama housing, as
    12  proposed in legislative bills numbers S.1931-B and A.7456-A, is  amended
    13  to read as follows:
    14    §  2.  This  act shall take effect [on the sixtieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law] immediately.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    17  the  amendments  to  section  397-b  of the general business law made by
    18  section one of this act shall take effect on the same date  and  in  the
    19  same  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the general busi-
    20  ness law relating to prohibiting residential and  commercial  properties
    21  from  operating digital billboards or signs that use flashing, intermit-
    22  tent or moving lights near certain Mitchell-Lama housing, as proposed in
    23  legislative bills numbers S.1931-B and A.7456-A, takes effect.