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A05169 Summary:

BILL NOA05169
 
SAME ASSAME AS S03605
 
SPONSORBenedetto
 
COSPNSRSayegh, Williams, Glick, Pichardo, Rosenthal L, Cruz, Simon, Galef, Braunstein, Jackson, Griffin
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §397-b, Gen Bus L
 
Prohibits residential and commercial properties from operating digital billboards or signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving lights near residential property.
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A05169 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          5169
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 11, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. BENEDETTO, SAYEGH, WILLIAMS, GLICK, PICHARDO,
          L. ROSENTHAL, CRUZ, SIMON, GALEF, BRAUNSTEIN, JACKSON -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
        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
          residential property
 
          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 residential property shall be  prohib-
     5  ited  from  operating  a digital billboard or other type of billboard or
     6  sign that uses flashing, intermittent or moving lights.
     7    2. As used in this section, the term "digital billboard" shall mean  a
     8  one or multi-sided outdoor advertising sign that displays digital images
     9  using light-emitting diode technology or any such similar technology.
    10    3.  A  city, village, or town may, by local law, expressly restrict or
    11  prohibit the use of outdoor advertising signage within  fifteen  hundred
    12  feet of residential property and commercial property.
    13    4. A violation of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a
    14  civil  penalty of one thousand dollars for the first violation, and five
    15  thousand dollars for all subsequent violations.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    17  have become a law.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07550-01-1
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