STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5546 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 13, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law, in relation to consents to public utilities; licenses and easements The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 13.06 of the parks, recreation and historic preser- 2 vation law, as renumbered by chapter 349 of the laws of 1983, is amended 3 to read as follows: 4 § 13.06 Consents to public utilities; licenses and easements. 5 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no railroad, bus line, tele- 6 phone or telegraph company, gas, power or light company, pipe line 7 company or other public utility shall have the right to pass over, 8 through or under any property acquired by the office or other state 9 agency for park, recreational or historic preservation purposes, except 10 by written consent, in the form of a license or easement, granted by the 11 commissioner, or such state agency, and then only under such regulations 12 and restrictions as the commissioner or such state agency shall deem 13 proper. The commissioner or other state agency shall have the right to 14 grant to any person, county or the federal government a license or an 15 easement for any public purpose or to construct or maintain sewers, 16 water, petroleum products, gas lines and electric transmission facili- 17 ties within, under or across such property, upon such terms and condi- 18 tions and under such regulations and restrictions as the commissioner or 19 such state agency shall deem just and proper. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08152-01-9