Directs the public service commission to survey all utility poles throughout the state, assess their condition and report the condition of such utility poles to the owners of such utility poles; requires the owners of utility poles in poor condition or twenty or more years old to replace such poles or receive a fine.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6380
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 26, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to directing the
public service commission to survey all utility poles throughout the
state and assess their condition
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public service law is amended by adding a new section
2 119-d to read as follows:
3 § 119-d. Survey of utility poles. 1. The commission shall survey all
4 utility poles throughout the state, assess their condition and report
5 the condition of such utility poles to the owners of such utility poles.
6 Any pole found in such survey to be in poor condition or twenty or more
7 years old shall be replaced by the utility company or cable television
8 company, as defined in section two hundred twelve of this chapter, that
9 owns such utility pole within ninety days of receipt of the utility pole
10 condition report from the commission.
11 2. A utility company or cable television company that has not replaced
12 a utility pole required to be replaced pursuant to subdivision one of
13 this section within ninety days of receipt of the utility pole condition
14 report from the commission shall be subject to a fine as imposed pursu-
15 ant to a local law passed by the municipality where such utility pole is
16 located.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10930-01-1
