Senate Bill S419

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the repair or replacement of damaged residential lateral sewer and water pipes

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Finance 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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2025-S419 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1736
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
New York City Administrative Code
Laws Affected:
Add §§24-316.1 & 24-532.1, NYC Ad Cd
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S4118, A5254
2021-2022: S641
2023-2024: S1398, A6100

2025-S419 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires public utility companies to repair or replace all damaged residential lateral sewer and water pipes where such damage was caused by such public utility company.

2025-S419 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S419 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    419
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  LIU,  ADDABBO, JACKSON, PERSAUD -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Cities 1
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
   relation to repair or replacement of damaged residential lateral sewer
   and water pipes
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
 by adding two new sections 24-316.1 and 24-532.1 to read as follows:
   § 24-316.1 WATER LATERAL PIPE REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT.   WHEN  AT  LEAST
 THREE  PROPERTIES  WITHIN A RADIUS OF SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY FEET HAVE BEEN
 ISSUED A THREE-DAY NOTICE TO REPAIR A DAMAGED RESIDENTIAL LATERAL  WATER
 PIPE  PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION  (P) OF SECTION 20-02 OF TITLE 15 OF THE
 RULES OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK WITHIN  A  SIX-MONTH  PERIOD,  AND,  AFTER
 INVESTIGATION  BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OF THE CITY
 OF NEW YORK AND AN OPPORTUNITY TO SUBMIT EVIDENCE TO SUCH DEPARTMENT, IN
 ACCORDANCE WITH RULES PROMULGATED BY SUCH DEPARTMENT, BY ANY  APPLICABLE
 PUBLIC  UTILITY COMPANY, AS DEFINED IN SECTION TWO OF THE PUBLIC SERVICE
 LAW, SUCH DEPARTMENT CONCLUDES, BASED ON SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE, THAT  THE
 INFRASTRUCTURE,  ELECTRIC  CURRENT  OR OTHER ACTIVITY OF ANY SUCH PUBLIC
 UTILITY COMPANY WAS A CAUSE OF SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE  TO  SUCH  RESIDENTIAL
 LATERAL WATER PIPE, SUCH PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANY SHALL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR
 THE  REPAIR  OR  REPLACEMENT  OF  SUCH PIPE. IN ANY INVESTIGATION BY THE
 DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION PURSUANT  TO  THIS  SECTION,  THE
 APPLICABLE  PUBLIC  UTILITY  COMPANY  SHALL COOPERATE WITH SUCH INVESTI-
 GATION, AND COMPLY WITH ANY REQUESTS BY SUCH DEPARTMENT RELATING TO SUCH
 INVESTIGATION. ANY PUBLIC  UTILITY  FOUND  TO  HAVE  CAUSED  SIGNIFICANT
 DAMAGE,  AFTER  AN  INVESTIGATION  AS PROVIDED IN THIS SECTION, SHALL BE
 RESPONSIBLE FOR  ALL  COSTS  ASSOCIATED  WITH  SUCH  INVESTIGATION,  AND
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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