Senate Bill S3834

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to providing notice to school districts and nonpublic schools located in a city with a population of one million or more of certain construction projects

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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-S3834 - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Highway Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §102, Hway L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S7239
2017-2018: S3678
2019-2020: S3079
2023-2024: S1672

2021-S3834 - Summary

Relates to providing notice to school districts and nonpublic schools located in a city with a population of one million or more of certain construction projects; requires county superintendents to provide written notice to such school districts and nonpublic schools of certain construction projects undertaken within three hundred feet of a building of such school districts or nonpublic schools.

2021-S3834 - Sponsor Memo

2021-S3834 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3834
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  ADDABBO,  COMRIE,  MYRIE, RAMOS -- 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 located in a city with a population of one million or
   more 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 LOCATED IN  A  CITY
 WITH  A  POPULATION  OF  ONE  MILLION OR MORE FOURTEEN DAYS PRIOR TO THE
 COMMENCEMENT OF A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT UNDERTAKEN WITHIN A THREE HUNDRED
 FOOT RADIUS OF ANY BUILDING OF SUCH SCHOOL DISTRICT  THAT  IS  USED  FOR
 STUDENT  INSTRUCTION.  NO  WRITTEN  NOTICE SHALL BE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO
 THIS SUBDIVISION WHEN THE COMMENCEMENT 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,  INCLUDING PUBLIC
 UTILITY IMPROVEMENTS, 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.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD03466-01-1

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2021-S3834A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Highway Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §102, Hway L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S7239
2017-2018: S3678
2019-2020: S3079
2023-2024: S1672

2021-S3834A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to providing notice to school districts and nonpublic schools located in a city with a population of one million or more of certain construction projects; requires county superintendents to provide written notice to such school districts and nonpublic schools of certain construction projects undertaken within three hundred feet of a building of such school districts or nonpublic schools.

2021-S3834A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S3834A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  3834--A
     Cal. No. 906
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  ADDABBO,  COMRIE,  MYRIE, RAMOS -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Transportation  --  recommitted  to the Committee on Transportation in
   accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- reported favorably from  said
   committee,  ordered  to  first  and  second report, ordered to a third
   reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining  its  place  in  the
   order of third reading
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  highway law, in relation to providing notice to
   school districts and nonpublic schools located in a city with a  popu-
   lation of one million or more 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 OR A NONPUBLIC
 SCHOOL LOCATED IN A CITY WITH A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE  FOUR-
 TEEN DAYS PRIOR TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF A CONSTRUCTION PROJECT UNDERTAKEN
 WITHIN  A  THREE  HUNDRED  FOOT  RADIUS  OF  ANY BUILDING OF SUCH SCHOOL
 DISTRICT OR NONPUBLIC SCHOOL THAT IS USED FOR  STUDENT  INSTRUCTION.  NO
 WRITTEN  NOTICE  SHALL BE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION WHEN THE
 COMMENCEMENT 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,  INCLUDING  PUBLIC
 UTILITY IMPROVEMENTS, 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,  NONPUBLIC
 SCHOOL OR THE STATE, AND IS A DIRECT CONSEQUENCE OF AN ACCIDENT OR OTHER
 UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCE.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.

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