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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1186
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. ADDABBO, COMRIE, MYRIE, RAMOS -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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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