Assembly Bill A5693

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Enacts the "roadway excavation quality assurance act"

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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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2019-A5693 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3699
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Add §28, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A6970
2013-2014: A5234
2015-2016: A3328
2017-2018: A4871, S8773
2021-2022: A2057, S1252
2023-2024: A5608, S4887

2019-A5693 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "roadway excavation quality assurance act"; relates to workers on excavations; provides that utility companies or their contractors shall use competent workers and shall pay the prevailing wage on projects where a permit to use or open a street is required to be issued.

2019-A5693 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5693
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  TITUS,  STECK, D. ROSENTHAL, BRONSON, SIMON,
   DenDEKKER, ROZIC -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BUCHWALD,  PEOPLES-
   STOKES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  labor law, in relation to enacting the "roadway
   excavation quality assurance act"

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 the "roadway excavation quality assurance act".
   § 2. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 28  to  read  as
 follows:
   §  28. WORKERS ON EXCAVATIONS. UTILITY COMPANIES OR THEIR CONTRACTORS,
 TO WHOM A PERMIT MAY BE ISSUED BY THE STATE, A COUNTY OR A  MUNICIPALITY
 TO  USE OR OPEN A STREET, SHALL BE REQUIRED, BEFORE SUCH PERMIT SHALL BE
 ISSUED, TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT THAT ONLY COMPETENT  WORKERS  SKILLED
 IN THE WORK REQUIRED OF THEM, SHALL BE EMPLOYED ON THE PROJECT FOR WHICH
 SUCH  PERMIT TO USE OR OPEN A STREET WAS ISSUED, AND THAT THE PREVAILING
 WAGE FOR SIMILAR TITLES AS ESTABLISHED BY THE FISCAL OFFICER PURSUANT TO
 SECTION TWO HUNDRED  TWENTY  OF  THIS  CHAPTER,  BE  PAID  TO  THOSE  SO
 EMPLOYED. NO PERMIT SHALL BE ISSUED UNTIL SUCH AGREEMENT SHALL HAVE BEEN
 ENTERED INTO WITH THE APPROPRIATE STATE, COUNTY OR MUNICIPAL AGENCY, AND
 ALL  PERMITS  ISSUED  AFTER  THE  EFFECTIVE  DATE  OF THIS SECTION SHALL
 INCLUDE THEREIN A COPY OF THIS SECTION.   WHEN  PERMITS  ARE  ISSUED  TO
 UTILITY  COMPANIES  OR THEIR CONTRACTORS, THE POWER TO ENFORCE THE TERMS
 OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE VESTED WITH THE DEPARTMENT CONSISTENT WITH  THE
 PROVISIONS OF SECTION TWO HUNDRED TWENTY OF THIS CHAPTER.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04410-01-9

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