Relates to requiring the safe removal of icicles from buildings abutting paved sidewalks and creating civil and criminal penalties appertaining thereto.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7097
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 23, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. BROOK-KRASNY -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to icicle removal
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 270.40 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 270.40 Icicle removal.
4 1. Every owner, lessee, tenant, occupant, or other person, having
5 charge of any building or lot of ground abutting upon any street where
6 the sidewalk is paved shall, within three days of the formation of
7 icicles on such building, cause those icicles overhanging entranceways,
8 exitways, and other commonly used pathways to be safely removed.
9 2. Anyone who knowingly violates any term of subdivision one of this
10 section shall constitute a civil penalty in the amount of three hundred
11 dollars for the first violation and five hundred dollars for the second
12 violation. A third and subsequent violation shall constitute a misdemea-
13 nor except that a seventh and subsequent violation or a violation lead-
14 ing to physical injury or property damage shall constitute a class E
15 felony.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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