Relates to providing notice to school districts and nonpublic schools located in a city with a population of one million or more of certain construction projects; requires county superintendents to provide written notice to such school districts and nonpublic schools of certain construction projects undertaken within three hundred feet of a building of such school districts or nonpublic schools.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3379
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. RAGA, ALVAREZ -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to providing notice to
school districts and nonpublic schools located in a city with a popu-
lation of one million or more of certain construction projects
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 102 of the highway law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 19 to read as follows:
3 19. a. Furnish written notice to a school district or a nonpublic
4 school located in a city with a population of one million or more four-
5 teen days prior to the commencement of a construction project undertaken
6 within a three hundred foot radius of any building of such school
7 district or nonpublic school that is used for student instruction. No
8 written notice shall be required pursuant to this subdivision when the
9 commencement of a construction project is in response to an emergency.
10 b. (i) The term "construction" as used in this subdivision means the
11 erection, building, or substantial acquisition, alteration, recon-
12 struction, improvement, extension or modification, including public
13 utility improvements, of a highway, sidewalk or appurtenance thereof.
14 (ii) The term "emergency" as used in this subdivision means a situ-
15 ation involving danger to life, safety or property which requires imme-
16 diate action, is essential to efficient operation or the adequate
17 provision of service by a municipality, school district, nonpublic
18 school or the state, and is a direct consequence of an accident or other
19 unforeseen circumstance.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
21 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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