Bill Text: NY S07590 | 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 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-29 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S07590 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07590-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7590

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 29, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection

        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