Bill Text: NY S03079 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to providing notice to school districts 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 of certain construction projects undertaken within three hundred feet of a building of such school district.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S03079 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S03079-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3079--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 1, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. ADDABBO, COMRIE, MYRIE, RAMOS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to providing notice to school districts located in a city with a population 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 located in a city 4 with a population of one million or more fourteen days prior to the 5 commencement of a construction project undertaken within a three hundred 6 foot radius of any building of such school district that is used for 7 student instruction. No written notice shall be required pursuant to 8 this subdivision when the commencement of a construction project is in 9 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 or the state, 18 and is a direct consequence of an accident or other unforeseen circum- 19 stance. 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. LBD06796-02-0