Prohibits residential and commercial properties from operating digital billboards or signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving lights near certain Mitchell-Lama housing within a city with a population of one million or more.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A7456A
SPONSOR: Benedetto TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting
residential and commercial properties from operating digital billboards
or signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving lights near certain
Mitchell-Lama housing
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To prohibiting residential and commercial properties from operating
digital billboards or signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving
lights near residential property.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
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 property within fifteen hundred feet
of residential property shall be prohibited from operating a digital
billboard or other type of billboard or sign that uses flashing, inter-
mittent 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.
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.
JUSTIFICATION:
This bill is in response to the erection of several illuminated digital
billboards near CO-OP City. These multi-sided outdoor advertising signs
intrude on the aesthetics and quality-of-life of nearby residential and
commercial properties
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2021-22: S3605 - Referred to Consumer Protection
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have
become law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7456--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 23, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. BENEDETTO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
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
certain Mitchell-Lama housing
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
2 397-b to read as follows:
3 § 397-b. Digital billboards. 1. All residential and commercial proper-
4 ty within fifteen hundred feet of a building used as Mitchell-Lama hous-
5 ing with no fewer than ten thousand units within a city with a popu-
6 lation of one million or more shall be prohibited from operating a
7 digital billboard or other type of billboard or sign that uses flashing,
8 intermittent or moving lights.
9 2. As used in this section, the term "digital billboard" shall mean a
10 one or multi-sided outdoor advertising sign that displays digital images
11 using light-emitting diode technology or any such similar technology.
12 3. Any municipality with property described under subdivision one of
13 this section may, by local law, expressly restrict or prohibit the use
14 of outdoor advertising signage within fifteen hundred feet of residen-
15 tial property.
16 4. A violation of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a
17 civil penalty of one thousand dollars for the first violation, and five
18 thousand dollars for all subsequent violations.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
20 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05118-08-3
