Bill Text: NY S08971 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires individuals and corporations to obtain a sound permit from a municipality in certain situations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-09-09 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08971 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08971-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8971

                    IN SENATE

                                    September 9, 2020
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the general municipal  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          individuals  or  corporations  to obtain a sound permit from a munici-
          pality in certain situations

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

     1    Section  1.  The  general  municipal  law  is  amended by adding a new
     2  section 99-x to read as follows:
     3    § 99-x. Sound permit requirement.  1.  An  individual  or  corporation
     4  shall  be required to apply for and obtain a sound permit from a munici-
     5  pality if:
     6    (a) a sound source is planned, installed or intended to be  installed,
     7  or  modified  by  any  individual  or  corporation in a manner that such
     8  source will create or is likely to create unreasonable noise;
     9    (b) any individual or corporation uses or plans to use  any  sound-am-
    10  plifying  equipment  in a manner that such equipment is or will be heard
    11  outside of any building or vehicle during nighttime hours; or
    12    (c) any individual or corporation uses or plans to  use  a  public-ad-
    13  dress system that will produce unreasonable noise outside of a building.
    14    2.  Applications  for  a  sound  permit shall be submitted seventy-two
    15  hours in advance of an event in a manner  and  form  prescribed  by  the
    16  municipality.
    17    3.  The  failure  of any individual or corporation to comply with this
    18  section shall result in the issuance of a written warning by the munici-
    19  pality. Any individual or corporation who violates this section:
    20    (a) for a second time shall be subject to  a  civil  penalty  of  five
    21  hundred dollars;
    22    (b)  for a third time shall be subject to a civil penalty of one thou-
    23  sand dollars; and
    24    (c) for each additional violation after that, shall be  subject  to  a
    25  civil  penalty of an additional one thousand dollars added to the previ-
    26  ous violation amount charged.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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