Assembly Bill A5169

2021-2022 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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  • 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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2021-A5169 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3605
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §397-b, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A9619, S7590
2023-2024: A7456, S1931

2021-A5169 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2021-A5169 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5169
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 11, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. BENEDETTO, SAYEGH, WILLIAMS, GLICK, PICHARDO,
   L. ROSENTHAL, CRUZ, SIMON, GALEF, BRAUNSTEIN, JACKSON -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 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.
                                                            LBD07550-01-1

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