Creates the blue light emergency phones pilot program in all five boroughs; directs the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to study and report upon the use of such program.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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125
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. EICHENSTEIN -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Cities
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to creating the blue light emergency phones pilot program and
to direct the commissioner of parks and recreation to study and report
upon the use of such program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
2 by adding a new section 18-165 to read as follows:
3 § 18-165 Blue light emergency phones pilot program. In one park, oper-
4 ated by or under the jurisdiction of the department, in each of the five
5 boroughs, the department shall implement a blue light emergency phones
6 pilot program for the purpose of public safety. Under such program, the
7 department shall install blue lighted emergency phones that, when used,
8 shall automatically dial 9-1-1 and ring directly to the police depart-
9 ment.
10 § 2. The commissioner of parks and recreation shall cause a study to
11 be performed to analyze how the implementation of blue light emergency
12 phones pilot program in parks impacts public safety compared to parks
13 without such a program.
14 § 3. On or before three hundred sixty-five days after all five
15 locations identified for the blue light emergency phones pilot program
16 have become operational, the commissioner of parks and recreation shall
17 complete the study conducted pursuant to section two of this act and
18 shall thereafter deliver a copy of the findings of the study and any
19 legislative recommendations deemed to be necessary to the governor, the
20 temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and the
21 mayor of the city of New York.
22 § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
23 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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