Senate Bill S7239

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to providing notice to school districts of certain construction projects

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

  • 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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2015-S7239 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10207
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Highway Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง102, Hway L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S3678, A5365
2019-2020: S3079
2021-2022: S3834
2023-2024: S1672

2015-S7239 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to providing notice to school districts of certain construction projects; requires county superintendents to provide written notice to school districts of all construction projects undertaken within three hundred feet of a building of such school district.

2015-S7239 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S7239 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7239

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 11, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the highway law, in  relation  to  providing  notice  to
  school districts of certain construction projects

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

  Section 1. Section 102 of the highway law is amended by adding  a  new
subdivision 19 to read as follows:
  19.  A.  FURNISH WRITTEN NOTICE TO A SCHOOL DISTRICT THIRTY DAYS PRIOR
TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT UNDERTAKEN WITHIN A  THREE
HUNDRED FOOT RADIUS OF ANY BUILDING OF SUCH SCHOOL DISTRICT.  NO WRITTEN
NOTICE SHALL BE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION WHEN THE COMMENCE-
MENT OF A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT IS IN RESPONSE TO AN EMERGENCY.
  B.  (I)  THE TERM "CONSTRUCTION" AS USED IN THIS SUBDIVISION MEANS THE
ERECTION,  BUILDING,  OR  SUBSTANTIAL  ACQUISITION,  ALTERATION,  RECON-
STRUCTION, IMPROVEMENT, EXTENSION OR MODIFICATION OF A HIGHWAY, SIDEWALK
OR APPURTENANCE THEREOF.
  (II)  THE  TERM  "EMERGENCY" AS USED IN THIS SUBDIVISION MEANS A SITU-
ATION INVOLVING DANGER TO LIFE, SAFETY OR PROPERTY WHICH REQUIRES  IMME-
DIATE  ACTION,  IS  ESSENTIAL  TO  EFFICIENT  OPERATION  OR THE ADEQUATE
PROVISION OF SERVICE BY A MUNICIPALITY, SCHOOL DISTRICT  OR  THE  STATE,
AND  IS  A DIRECT CONSEQUENCE OF AN ACCIDENT OR OTHER UNFORESEEN CIRCUM-
STANCE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14230-02-6

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