Relates to anti-arson applications; makes the provision of law relating to anti-arson applications applicable to only cities with a population over one million persons.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A6217
SPONSOR: Ryan TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the insurance law, in relation to
anti-arson applications
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
The purpose of this bill is to amend paragraph 2 of subsection (g) of
section 3403 of the insurance law to only apply to cities with a popu-
lation of one million or more persons according to the nineteen hundred
seventy census.
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends paragraph 2 of subsection (g) of section 3403 of the
insurance law to restrict its automatic application to cities with over
four hundred thousand person populations.
Section 2 sets an immediate effective date.
JUSTIFICATION:
When New York first enacted this law, arson for profit reached a signif-
icant point due in large part to specific economic circumstances. Those
circumstances are no longer present and the methods of investigating
arson no longer make it necessary to continue this act. Further, this
bill singles out Buffalo as the only upstate city to which it automat-
ically applies. This causes time and effort to be wasted when attempting
to secure insurance in Buffalo. This legislative change would stop this
unfair treatment of Buffalo.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6217
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 28, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. RYAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Insurance
AN ACT to amend the insurance law, in relation to anti-arson applica-
tions
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subsection (g) of section 3403 of the insur-
2 ance law is amended to read as follows:
3 (2) The provisions of this section shall only apply to cities with a
4 population [over four hundred thousand] of one million or more persons
5 according to the nineteen hundred seventy census, except that within a
6 reasonable time after receiving a petition by the governing board of a
7 local municipal corporation as those terms are defined in article one of
8 the general municipal law, the superintendent shall mandate the use of
9 the anti-arson application within specific designations contained in
10 such petition.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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