Bill Text: NY A09619 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits residential and commercial properties from operating digital billboards or signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving lights near residential property.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-28 - referred to transportation [A09619 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09619-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9619

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 28, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BENEDETTO  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the general business law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
          residential  and  commercial  properties  from operating digital bill-
          boards or signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving lights  near
          residential property

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

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  397-b to read as follows:
     3    § 397-b. Digital billboards. 1. All residential and commercial proper-
     4  ty within fifteen hundred feet of residential property shall be  prohib-
     5  ited  from  operating  a digital billboard or other type of billboard or
     6  sign that uses flashing, intermittent or moving lights.
     7    2. As used in this section, the term "digital billboard" shall mean  a
     8  one or multi-sided outdoor advertising sign that displays digital images
     9  using light-emitting diode technology or any such similar technology.
    10    3.  A  city, village, or town may, by local law, expressly restrict or
    11  prohibit the use of outdoor advertising signage within  fifteen  hundred
    12  feet of residential property and commercial property.
    13    4. A violation of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a
    14  civil  penalty of one thousand dollars for the first violation, and five
    15  thousand dollars for all subsequent violations.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    17  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14519-03-0