Prohibits residential and commercial properties from operating digital billboards or signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving lights near residential property.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A5169
SPONSOR: Benedetto TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting
residential and commercial properties from operating digital billboards
or signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving lights near residen-
tial property
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To prohibiting residential and commercial properties from operating
digital billboards or signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving
lights near residential property.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
397-b to read as follows: 397-b. Digital billboards.
1. All residential and commercial property within fifteen hundred feet
of residential property shall be prohibited from operating a digital
billboard or other type of billboard or sign that uses flashing, inter-
mittent or moving lights.
2. As used in this section, the term "digital billboard" shall mean a
one or multi sided outdoor advertising sign that displays digital images
using light emitting diode technology or any such similar technology.
3. A city, village, or town may, by local law, expressly restrict or
prohibit the use of outdoor advertising signage within fifteen hundred
feet of residential property and commercial.
4. A violation of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a
civil penalty of one thousand dollars for the first violation, and five
thousand dollars for all subsequent violations.
JUSTIFICATION:
This bill is in response to the erection of several illuminated digital
billboards near CO-OP City. These multi-sided outdoor advertising signs
intrude on the aesthetics and quality-of-life of nearby residential and
commercial properties
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2020-2019A.9619Referred to Transportation
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
None
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have
become law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5169
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 11, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. BENEDETTO, SAYEGH, WILLIAMS, GLICK, PICHARDO,
L. ROSENTHAL, CRUZ, SIMON, GALEF, BRAUNSTEIN, JACKSON -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting
residential and commercial properties from operating digital bill-
boards or signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving lights near
residential property
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
2 397-b to read as follows:
3 § 397-b. Digital billboards. 1. All residential and commercial proper-
4 ty within fifteen hundred feet of residential property shall be prohib-
5 ited from operating a digital billboard or other type of billboard or
6 sign that uses flashing, intermittent or moving lights.
7 2. As used in this section, the term "digital billboard" shall mean a
8 one or multi-sided outdoor advertising sign that displays digital images
9 using light-emitting diode technology or any such similar technology.
10 3. A city, village, or town may, by local law, expressly restrict or
11 prohibit the use of outdoor advertising signage within fifteen hundred
12 feet of residential property and commercial property.
13 4. A violation of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a
14 civil penalty of one thousand dollars for the first violation, and five
15 thousand dollars for all subsequent violations.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07550-01-1
