NY State Senate Bill 2019-S7590

Senate Bill S7590

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to prohibiting residential and commercial properties from operating digital billboards or signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving lights near residential property

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Consumer Protection Committee

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Delivered to Governor
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Jan 29, 2020	referred to consumer protection

2019-S7590 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9619
Current Committee:: Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:: General Business Law
Laws Affected:: Add §397-b, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2021-2022: S3605, A5169
2023-2024: S1931, A7456

2019-S7590 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits residential and commercial properties from operating digital billboards or signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving lights near residential property.

2019-S7590 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S7590

SPONSOR: BAILEY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting
residential and commercial properties from operating digital billboards
or signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving lights near residen-
tial property

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To prohibiting residential and commercial properties from operating
digital billboards or signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving
lights near residential property.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
397-b to read as follows:

§ 397-b. Digital billboards.

1. All residential and commercial property within fifteen hundred feet
of residential property shall be prohibited from operating a digital
billboard or other type of billboard or sign that uses flashing, inter-
mittent or moving lights.

2. As used in this section, the term "digital billboard" shall mean a
one or multi sided outdoor advertising sign that displays digital images
using light emitting diode technology or any such similar technology.

3. A city, village, or town may, by local law, expressly restrict or
prohibit the use of outdoor advertising signage within fifteen hundred
feet of residential property and commercial.

4. A violation of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a
civil penalty of one thousand dollars for the first violation, and five
thousand dollars for all subsequent violations.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This bill is in response to the erection of several illuminated digital
billboards near CO-OP City.  These multi-sided outdoor advertising signs
intrude on the aesthetics and quality-of-life of nearby residential and
commercial properties

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

None

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

None

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have
become law.

2019-S7590 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7590
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             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:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 397-b to read as follows:
   § 397-B. DIGITAL BILLBOARDS. 1. ALL RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPER-
 TY WITHIN FIFTEEN HUNDRED FEET OF RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY SHALL BE  PROHIB-
 ITED  FROM  OPERATING  A DIGITAL BILLBOARD OR OTHER TYPE OF BILLBOARD OR
 SIGN THAT USES FLASHING, INTERMITTENT OR MOVING LIGHTS.
   2. AS USED IN THIS SECTION, THE TERM "DIGITAL BILLBOARD" SHALL MEAN  A
 ONE OR MULTI-SIDED OUTDOOR ADVERTISING SIGN THAT DISPLAYS DIGITAL IMAGES
 USING LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE TECHNOLOGY OR ANY SUCH SIMILAR TECHNOLOGY.
   3.  A  CITY, VILLAGE, OR TOWN MAY, BY LOCAL LAW, EXPRESSLY RESTRICT OR
 PROHIBIT THE USE OF OUTDOOR ADVERTISING SIGNAGE WITHIN  FIFTEEN  HUNDRED
 FEET OF RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY.
   4. A VIOLATION OF THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL 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 sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14519-03-0

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