STATE OF NEW YORK
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4175
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 3, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
ty and Military Affairs
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to including extreme
winter weather preparedness in local comprehensive emergency manage-
ment plans
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 20 of the executive
2 law, as amended by chapter 23 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 a. "disaster" means occurrence or imminent, impending or urgent threat
5 of wide spread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property
6 resulting from any natural or man-made causes, including, but not limit-
7 ed to, fire, flood, earthquake, hurricane, extreme winter weather,
8 tornado, high water, landslide, mudslide, wind, storm, wave action,
9 volcanic activity, epidemic, disease outbreak, air contamination,
10 terrorism, cyber event, blight, drought, infestation, explosion, radio-
11 logical accident, nuclear, chemical, biological, or bacteriological
12 release, water contamination, bridge failure or bridge collapse.
13 § 2. Section 23 of the executive law is amended by adding a new subdi-
14 vision 8 to read as follows:
15 8. Such plans shall additionally include, but not be limited to, the
16 following regarding extreme winter weather:
17 a. evacuation plans and sheltering-in-place plans in the case of
18 extreme winter weather, such plans should include how to deal with tran-
19 sit networks, utilities, and community warming centers; and
20 b. an annual inventory of the municipality's extreme winter weather
21 equipment, such inventory shall include the age and condition of such
22 equipment.
23 § 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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