Bill Text: NY S01931 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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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 certain Mitchell-Lama housing within a city with a population of one million or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-12-22 - APPROVAL MEMO.78 [S01931 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S01931-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1931--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Consumer  Protection  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        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
          certain Mitchell-Lama housing

          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 a building used as Mitchell-Lama hous-
     5  ing  with  no  fewer  than ten thousand units within a city with a popu-
     6  lation of one million or more  shall  be  prohibited  from  operating  a
     7  digital billboard or other type of billboard or sign that uses flashing,
     8  intermittent or moving lights.
     9    2.  As used in this section, the term "digital billboard" shall mean a
    10  one or multi-sided outdoor advertising sign that displays digital images
    11  using light-emitting diode technology or any such similar technology.
    12    3. Any municipality with property described under subdivision  one  of
    13  this  section  may, by local law, expressly restrict or prohibit the use
    14  of outdoor advertising signage within fifteen hundred feet  of  residen-
    15  tial property.
    16    4. A violation of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a
    17  civil  penalty of one thousand dollars for the first violation, and five
    18  thousand dollars for all subsequent violations.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    20  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05118-07-3