Provides that the education commissioner may make grants to school districts which have incurred costs in the removal, replacement or sealing of wood or wood products, which have been treated with chromated copper arsenate and were used in the construction of playgrounds on school property.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7359
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 31, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. MILLER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. TEDISCO
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to funding for certain
remedial reconstruction on school playgrounds
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 414 of the education law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 3 to read as follows:
3 3. The trustees or board of education shall determine if playgrounds
4 erected on school property contain wood or wood products which have been
5 treated with chromated copper arsenate, and provide for the removal,
6 replacement or sealing of such wood or wood products. The commissioner
7 may authorize an appropriate grant to offset all or a portion of the
8 cost to the district for such remedial activity. The remediation shall
9 be completed on or before the first day of September in the year next
10 succeeding the year in which this subdivision shall have become a law.
11 § 2. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
12 subdivision 42 to read as follows:
13 42. The commissioner may provide grants to school districts to offset,
14 in whole or in part, the cost of remedial action taken to remove,
15 replace or seal wood or wood products, which have been treated with
16 chromated copper arsenate, and were used in constructing playgrounds on
17 school property.
18 § 3. 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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