Senate Bill S6095

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Directs the public service commission to implement rules requiring public utility companies to remove or relocate their utility poles when necessary for road improvements

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Energy And Telecommunications Committee

  • 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-S6095 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Energy And Telecommunications
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §5, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S4349
2017-2018: S7972
2019-2020: S3176
2023-2024: S4770

2021-S6095 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the public service commission to implement rules requiring public utility companies to remove or relocate their utility poles when necessary for road improvements.

2021-S6095 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S6095 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6095
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 8, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
   cations
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the public service law, in relation to directing the
   public service commission  to  require  public  utility  companies  to
   remove or relocate utility poles upon the completion of public roadway
   improvements
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 5 of the public service law is amended by adding  a
 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
   7.  THE  COMMISSION  SHALL  ADOPT  AND IMPLEMENT RULES AND REGULATIONS
 REQUIRING EACH PUBLIC UTILITY  COMPANY,  WHICH  EXERCISES  CONTROL  OVER
 UTILITY  POLES,  TO REMOVE OR RELOCATE ANY SUCH POLES AS SHALL BE DETER-
 MINED TO BE NECESSARY BY THE STATE OR ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION  THEREOF
 IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OR IMPROVEMENT OF ANY PUBLIC ROADWAY
 BY  THE STATE OR SUCH POLITICAL SUBDIVISION. SUCH UTILITY POLES SHALL BE
 REMOVED OR RELOCATED, AS THE CASE MAY BE,  WITHIN  NINETY  DAYS  OF  THE
 RECEIPT  BY  THE  PUBLIC  UTILITY COMPANY OF NOTICE, FROM THE STATE OR A
 POLITICAL SUBDIVISION, THAT THE PUBLIC ROADWAY  HAS  BEEN  COMPLETED  OR
 IMPROVED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06702-01-1

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