Senate Bill S7469

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires a safety and reliability inspection of all telephone poles used by telephone corporations providing telephone service to more than one million subscribers

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-S7469 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10577
Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง98-a, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S1777, A6181
2013-2014: S1537, A8762
2015-2016: A1140
2017-2018: A10281
2019-2020: A3332
2021-2022: A5286

2009-S7469 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a safety and reliability inspection of all telephone poles used by telephone corporations providing telephone service to more than one million subscribers and the replacement or removal of deficient poles.

2009-S7469 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S7469 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7469

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 14, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. PERKINS -- 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 requiring a safe-
  ty and reliability inspection of all telephone poles used by telephone
  corporations  providing  telephone  service  to  more than one million
  subscribers and the replacement or removal of deficient poles

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby declares that
unsafe, inadequate or unreliable telephone poles are  a  danger  to  the
general  public  and  to telecommunications workers; that such telephone
poles impair the effective delivery of telecommunications services;  and
that  the public interest requires increased oversight of the safety and
reliability of jurisdictional telecommunications services  carried  over
or  by above ground telephone lines, as such are defined in article 1 of
the public service law; and that the public interest requires a  set  of
minimum  fines  to ensure compliance with this statute by each telephone
corporation serving over one million subscribers.
  S 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 98-a to
read as follows:
  S 98-A. SAFETY AND  RELIABILITY  INSPECTION.  1.  THE  PUBLIC  SERVICE
COMMISSION  SHALL,  WITHIN  THIRTY  DAYS  OF  THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS
SECTION, REQUIRE TELEPHONE CORPORATIONS PROVIDING TELEPHONE  SERVICE  TO
MORE  THAN ONE MILLION SUBSCRIBERS, TO CONDUCT A STUDY OF THE SAFETY AND
RELIABILITY OF ALL TELEPHONE POLES USED BY SUCH CORPORATIONS TO  PROVIDE
TELEPHONE  SERVICE  WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AND TO REPORT UPON THE
FOLLOWING FACTORS:
  (A) THE TOTAL NUMBER OF TELEPHONE POLES PER COUNTY;
  (B) THE NUMBER OF TELEPHONE POLES WITHIN EACH COUNTY THAT ARE SPLIT OR
SHATTERED FOR MORE THAN FIVE PERCENT OF THE LENGTH OF SUCH POLES;
  (C) THE NUMBER OF TELEPHONE POLES  PER  COUNTY  THAT  ARE  SEVERED  OR
PARTIALLY SEVERED FROM THEIR BASE;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD16730-02-0
              

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