Relates to providing notice to school districts located in a city with a population of one million or more of certain construction projects; requires county superintendents to provide written notice to such school districts of certain construction projects undertaken within three hundred feet of a building of such school district.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3079--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 1, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. ADDABBO, COMRIE, MYRIE, RAMOS -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in
accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to providing notice to
school districts located in a city with a population of one million or
more of certain construction projects
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 102 of the highway law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 19 to read as follows:
3 19. a. Furnish written notice to a school district located in a city
4 with a population of one million or more fourteen days prior to the
5 commencement of a construction project undertaken within a three hundred
6 foot radius of any building of such school district that is used for
7 student instruction. No written notice shall be required pursuant to
8 this subdivision when the commencement of a construction project is in
9 response to an emergency.
10 b. (i) The term "construction" as used in this subdivision means the
11 erection, building, or substantial acquisition, alteration, recon-
12 struction, improvement, extension or modification, including public
13 utility improvements, of a highway, sidewalk or appurtenance thereof.
14 (ii) The term "emergency" as used in this subdivision means a situ-
15 ation involving danger to life, safety or property which requires imme-
16 diate action, is essential to efficient operation or the adequate
17 provision of service by a municipality, school district or the state,
18 and is a direct consequence of an accident or other unforeseen circum-
19 stance.
20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
21 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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