STATE OF NEW YORK
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8290--B
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 13, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee -- again reported from said committee with amend-
ments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the navigation law, in relation to prohibiting vessels
from operating, anchoring or mooring in the navigable waters of the
state while operating a digital billboard board
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The navigation law is amended by adding a new section 43-a
2 to read as follows:
3 § 43-a. Use of digital billboards. 1. All vessels shall be prohibited
4 from operating, anchoring or mooring in the navigable waters of the
5 state while operating a digital billboard or other type of billboard
6 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 unless exclusively used to identify the vessel.
11 3. This section shall not be construed to limit any authority deleg-
12 ated to a city, village or town pursuant to section forty-six-a of this
13 part. A city, village or town may, by local law, expressly restrict or
14 prohibit the use of outdoor advertising signage on vessels within one
15 thousand five hundred feet of its shore or expressly authorize vessels
16 to operate a digital billboard or other type of billboard that uses
17 flashing, intermittent or moving lights within one thousand five hundred
18 feet of its shore.
19 4. A violation of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a
20 civil penalty of one thousand dollars for the first violation, and five
21 thousand dollars for all subsequent violations.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11056-05-9