Bill Text: NY A07884 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the veterans' memorials preservation act.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 24-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-15 - held for consideration in veterans' affairs [A07884 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07884-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7884

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 28, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MANKTELOW  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Veterans' Affairs

        AN ACT establishing the veterans' memorials preservation act

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

     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "veterans' memorials preservation act".
     3    § 2. Definitions. For the purposes of this act:
     4    (a) a "memorial" is any park, monument, field,  open  land,  grove  of
     5  trees,  building, structure, artwork, tablet, plaque, wall, or any other
     6  structure that has been donated to, or constructed by, a  public  entity
     7  as a memorial to veterans of any war, conflict, or police action engaged
     8  in  by the armed forces of the United States, or any state of the United
     9  States, or the New York national guard.
    10    (b) a "public entity" is any governmental body of any kind, including,
    11  but not limited to, the state, a city, town,  village,  borough,  school
    12  district or public authority.
    13    § 3.  Memorials  shall be preserved and be open to the public. (a) Any
    14  public entity that has created or received a gift of  a  memorial  shall
    15  not  alter,  destroy,  reconfigure,  adjust, change, modify or move such
    16  memorial, or cause or permit any person to commit such  acts;  provided,
    17  however, that such acts are permitted when reasonably necessary.
    18    (b)  Any  public entity that has created a memorial or accepted a gift
    19  of a memorial shall maintain the memorial in a reasonable manner.
    20    (c) A public entity shall not restrict access to a memorial except  as
    21  reasonably necessary.
    22    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04984-01-9