Bill Text: NY A02669 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires the metropolitan transportation authority and the New York city transit authority to implement certain standards issued by the society for protective coatings pertaining to applying and removing coatings from bridges, trestles, and elevated subway and railway tracks and stations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A02669 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02669-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2669
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 24, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the
          metropolitan  transportation  authority  and the New York city transit
          authority to implement certain standards pertaining  to  applying  and
          removing  coatings from bridges, trestles, elevated subway and railway
          tracks and stations
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  1266 of the public authorities law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 19 to read as follows:
     3    19. The authority shall promulgate regulations  to  require  that  all
     4  application  and maintenance of paint and coatings on bridges, trestles,
     5  elevated subway  tracks,  elevated  subway  stations,  elevated  railway
     6  tracks  and  elevated railway stations have a quality management program
     7  and meet applicable industry standards of  the  society  for  protective
     8  coatings  painting  contractor  certification program to standards QP-1,
     9  QP-2, QP-3, or national association of corrosion  engineers  NIICAP  AS1
    10  and  AS2. The removal, surface preparation, and application of all paint
    11  and coatings on authority  property,  facilities  and  assets  shall  be
    12  performed by certified workers in accordance with the NACE 13/ACS1 Stan-
    13  dard.
    14    § 2. Section 1209 of the public authorities law is amended by adding a
    15  new subdivision 15 to read as follows:
    16    15.  The  authority  shall  promulgate regulations to require that all
    17  application and maintenance of paint and coatings on bridges,  trestles,
    18  elevated  subway  tracks,  elevated  subway  stations,  elevated railway
    19  tracks and elevated railway stations have a quality  management  program
    20  and  meet  applicable  industry  standards of the society for protective
    21  coatings painting contractor certification program  to  standards  QP-1,
    22  QP-2,  QP-3,  or  national association of corrosion engineers NIICAP AS1
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01337-01-9

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     1  and AS2. The removal, surface preparation, and application of all  paint
     2  and  coatings  on  authority  property,  facilities  and assets shall be
     3  performed by certified workers in accordance with the NACE 13/ACS1 Stan-
     4  dard.
     5    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall apply to all
     6  projects and bids proposed on or after such date and to any contract for
     7  which bids or proposals are submitted after such date.
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