Provides any entity which leases excavation equipment to the public with the telephone number of the system and a sample or model notice informing lessees of excavation equipment of the system and their responsibilities relating to the protection of underground facilities.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5509
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 24, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- 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 and the general business law, in
relation to requiring the display of a notice of responsibilities to
protect underground facilities
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 119-b of the public service law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
3 9. Any entity which leases excavation equipment to the public shall
4 provide a notice to lessees of such excavation equipment that informs
5 such lessees about their responsibilities under state law to protect
6 underground facilities and the existence, operation, programs, and tele-
7 phone number of the one-call notification system.
8 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 761 of the general business law is
9 amended by adding a new paragraph h to read as follows:
10 h. Provide any entity which leases excavation equipment to the public
11 with the telephone number of the system and a sample or model notice
12 informing lessees of excavation equipment of the system and their
13 responsibilities relating to the protection of underground facilities;
14 cooperate with entities that lease excavation equipment to encourage
15 their participation in the system to ensure that when lessees lease
16 excavation equipment, such lessees receive information about the system
17 and about their obligation to protect underground facilities.
18 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
19 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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