Bill Text: NY A06512 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to providing notice to school districts and nonpublic schools located in a city with a population of one million or more of certain construction projects; requires county superintendents to provide written notice to such school districts and nonpublic schools of certain construction projects undertaken within three hundred feet of a building of such school districts or nonpublic schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A06512 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A06512-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6512 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 12, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RAGA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to providing notice to school districts and nonpublic schools located in a city with a popu- lation of one million or more of certain construction projects The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 102 of the highway law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 19 to read as follows: 3 19. a. Furnish written notice to a school district or a nonpublic 4 school located in a city with a population of one million or more four- 5 teen days prior to the commencement of a construction project undertaken 6 within a three hundred foot radius of any building of such school 7 district or nonpublic school that is used for student instruction. No 8 written notice shall be required pursuant to this subdivision when the 9 commencement of a construction project is in response to an emergency. 10 b. (i) The term "construction" as used in this subdivision means the 11 erection, building, or substantial acquisition, alteration, recon- 12 struction, improvement, extension or modification, including public 13 utility improvements, of a highway, sidewalk or appurtenance thereof. 14 (ii) The term "emergency" as used in this subdivision means a situ- 15 ation involving danger to life, safety or property which requires imme- 16 diate action, is essential to efficient operation or the adequate 17 provision of service by a municipality, school district, nonpublic 18 school or the state, and is a direct consequence of an accident or other 19 unforeseen circumstance. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 21 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04289-01-3
