Senate Bill S6083

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to prohibiting digital billboards from being used by vessels

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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-S6083 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Navigation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §43-a, Nav L

2019-S6083 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits vessels from operating in navigable waters while equipped with a digital billboard, unless a local law has authorized the vessel to do so.

2019-S6083 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6083 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6083
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 16, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Cultural Affairs, Tourism,
   Parks and Recreation
 
 AN ACT to amend the navigation law, in relation to  prohibiting  vessels
   from operating in navigable waters while equipped with a digital bill-
   board

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The navigation law is amended by adding a new section  43-a
 to read as follows:
   §  43-A. USE OF DIGITAL BILLBOARDS. 1. ALL VESSELS SHALL BE PROHIBITED
 FROM OPERATING, ANCHORING OR MOORING IN  THE  NAVIGABLE  WATERS  OF  THE
 STATE WHILE EQUIPPED WITH A DIGITAL BILLBOARD THAT USES FLASHING, INTER-
 MITTENT OR MOVING LIGHTS.
   2.  AS USED IN THIS SECTION, THE TERM "DIGITAL BILLBOARD" SHALL MEAN A
 ONE OR TWO SIDED OUTDOOR ADVERTISING SIGN THAT DISPLAYS  DIGITAL  IMAGES
 WHICH  ARE  CHANGED  BY  A COMPUTER IN INTERVALS AND ARE USED FOR EITHER
 ADVERTISING OR PUBLIC SERVICE PURPOSES.
   3. THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO INSTANCES IN WHICH A LOCAL LAW  HAS
 BEEN ENACTED PURSUANT TO SECTION FORTY-SIX-A OF THIS PART WHICH EXPRESS-
 LY AUTHORIZES VESSELS TO USE SUCH DIGITAL BILLBOARDS WITHIN ONE THOUSAND
 FIVE HUNDRED FEET OFF OF ITS SHORE.
   4.  A  VIOLATION  OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL CONSTITUTE A
 MISDEMEANOR AND SHALL ALSO BE SUBJECT TO A CIVIL PENALTY OF ONE THOUSAND
 DOLLARS FOR THE FIRST VIOLATION,  AND  FIVE  THOUSAND  DOLLARS  FOR  ALL
 SUBSEQUENT VIOLATIONS.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11056-01-9

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