Bill Text: NY S06380 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6380 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Directs the public service commission to survey all utility poles throughout the state, assess their condition and report the condition of such utility poles to the owners of such utility poles; requires the owners of utility poles in poor condition or twenty or more years old to replace such poles or receive a fine.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS [S06380 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06380-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6380

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 26, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
          cations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public service law, in relation to directing the
          public service commission to survey all utility poles  throughout  the
          state and assess their condition

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

     1    Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  119-d to read as follows:
     3    §  119-d.  Survey of utility poles. 1. The commission shall survey all
     4  utility poles throughout the state, assess their  condition  and  report
     5  the condition of such utility poles to the owners of such utility poles.
     6  Any  pole found in such survey to be in poor condition or twenty or more
     7  years old shall be replaced by the utility company or  cable  television
     8  company,  as defined in section two hundred twelve of this chapter, that
     9  owns such utility pole within ninety days of receipt of the utility pole
    10  condition report from the commission.
    11    2. A utility company or cable television company that has not replaced
    12  a utility pole required to be replaced pursuant to  subdivision  one  of
    13  this section within ninety days of receipt of the utility pole condition
    14  report  from the commission shall be subject to a fine as imposed pursu-
    15  ant to a local law passed by the municipality where such utility pole is
    16  located.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    18  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10930-01-1