Directs the public service commission to implement rules requiring public utility companies to remove or relocate their utility poles when necessary for road improvements.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4770
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 14, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni-
cations
AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to directing the
public service commission to require public utility companies to
remove or relocate utility poles upon the completion of public roadway
improvements
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 5 of the public service law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
3 7. The commission shall adopt and implement rules and regulations
4 requiring each public utility company, which exercises control over
5 utility poles, to remove or relocate any such poles as shall be deter-
6 mined to be necessary by the state or any political subdivision thereof
7 in connection with the construction or improvement of any public roadway
8 by the state or such political subdivision. Such utility poles shall be
9 removed or relocated, as the case may be, within ninety days of the
10 receipt by the public utility company of notice, from the state or a
11 political subdivision, that the public roadway has been completed or
12 improved.
13 § 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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