Requires any city having a population of 500,000 or more use the best technology available, including computer models, to develop evacuation time estimates, which shall be used to complete such plan; requires the state emergency management office to assist therewith; requires such time estimates to be made available to the public, unless the state emergency management office declares that there is a compelling security reason to withhold such information from the public.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5297
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 3, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. BALL -- 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 the local disaster
preparedness plans of a city having a population of five hundred thou-
sand or more inhabitants
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 23 of the executive law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
3 1-a. In the event that any city having a population of five hundred
4 thousand or more inhabitants prepares a local disaster preparedness
5 plan, such plan shall use the up-to-date industry standard or the best
6 technology available, including computer models, to develop evacuation
7 time estimates, which shall be used to complete such plan. In the event
8 that any such city has already developed such a plan, such plan shall be
9 revised to come into compliance with the provisions of this subdivision,
10 unless the disaster preparedness commission, as defined in paragraph d
11 of subdivision two of section twenty of this article, determines that
12 such plan is already in compliance with the provisions of this subdivi-
13 sion. Said disaster preparedness commission shall assist any such city
14 with the development thereof.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
16 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11289-01-1
