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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LEVENBERG  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring  corpo-
   rations  and  municipalities to notify property owners prior to begin-
   ning certain services

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The public service law is amended by adding a new section
 119-e to read as follows:
   § 119-E. NOTIFICATION OF WORK. 1. PRIOR TO BEGINNING ANY NON-EMERGENCY
 CONSTRUCTION OR OTHER WORK FOR WHICH A UTILITY HAS A  VALID  PERMIT  AND
 REASONABLY BELIEVES WILL DIRECTLY AND MATERIALLY IMPACT THE USE OF RESI-
 DENTIAL, COMMERCIAL OR OTHER PROPERTY, SUCH UTILITY SHALL PROVIDE NOTICE
 OF  SUCH  WORK.  FOR  PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "UTILITY" SHALL
 INCLUDE: A GAS CORPORATION, AN ELECTRIC CORPORATION, A GAS AND  ELECTRIC
 CORPORATION,  A  WATER  CORPORATION,  A  STEAM  CORPORATION, A TELEGRAPH
 CORPORATION, A TELEPHONE CORPORATION OR A MUNICIPALITY RENDERING  EQUIV-
 ALENT  UTILITY  SERVICES. SUCH NOTICE SHALL BE PROVIDED TO CUSTOMERS THE
 UTILITY REASONABLY BELIEVES WILL BE DIRECTLY AND MATERIALLY IMPACTED  BY
 SUCH WORK.
   2.  SUCH NOTICE SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO, A DESCRIPTION OF
 THE WORK TO BE PERFORMED,  THE  EXPECTED  DURATION  OF  SUCH  WORK,  THE
 LOCATION  OF  SUCH WORK, ANY ROAD CLOSURES OR DETOURS THAT MAY OCCUR DUE
 TO SUCH WORK, ANY ACTION THAT MAY DIRECTLY AND MATERIALLY IMPACT THE USE
 OF SUCH PROPERTY, AND THE CONTACT INFORMATION FOR THE UTILITY PERFORMING
 SUCH WORK. SUCH NOTICE MAY INCLUDE ELECTRONIC  COMMUNICATIONS,  SIGNAGE,
 AND WRITTEN MATERIALS.
   3.  SUCH NOTICE SHALL BE GIVEN AS FAR IN ADVANCE AS PRACTICABLE BEFORE
 THE START OF WORK BUT NOT MORE THAN THIRTY DAYS IN ADVANCE OF THE  START
 OF SUCH WORK.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   4.  THE  PROVISIONS  OF  THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY IN THE CASE OF A
 NATURAL OR MAN-MADE DISASTER OR STATE OF EMERGENCY PURSUANT  TO  ARTICLE
 TWO-B  OF  THE  EXECUTIVE  LAW, OR WHERE THE NEED TO PROVIDE SUCH NOTICE
 WOULD PREVENT THE TIMELY INSTALLATION, RESTORATION OR REPAIR OF A UTILI-
 TY CUSTOMER'S SERVICE.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.    Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
 of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.