Bill Text: NY A05289 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the blue light emergency phones pilot program in all five boroughs and directs the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to study and report upon the use of such program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-06 - enacting clause stricken [A05289 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05289-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5289
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 8, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Cities
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
          relation to creating the blue light emergency phones pilot program and
          to direct the commissioner of parks and recreation to study and report
          upon the use of such program
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
     2  by adding a new section 18-156 to read as follows:
     3    § 18-156 Blue light emergency phones pilot program. In one park, oper-
     4  ated by or under the jurisdiction of the department, in each of the five
     5  boroughs, the department shall implement a blue light  emergency  phones
     6  pilot  program for the purpose of public safety. Under such program, the
     7  department shall install blue lighted emergency phones that, when  used,
     8  shall  automatically dial 9-1-1 and ring directly to the precinct of the
     9  police department.
    10    § 2. The commissioner of parks and recreation shall cause a  study  to
    11  be  performed  to analyze how the implementation of blue light emergency
    12  phones pilot program in parks impacts public safety  compared  to  parks
    13  without such a program.
    14    §  3.  On  or  before  three  hundred  sixty-five  days after all five
    15  locations identified for the blue light emergency phones  pilot  program
    16  have  become operational, the commissioner of parks and recreation shall
    17  complete the study conducted pursuant to section two  of  this  act  and
    18  shall  thereafter  deliver  a  copy of the findings of the study and any
    19  legislative recommendations he or she  deems  to  be  necessary  to  the
    20  governor,  the  temporary  president  of  the senate, the speaker of the
    21  assembly and the mayor of the city of New York.
    22    § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    23  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08869-01-9