STATE OF NEW YORK
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7230
IN SENATE
January 13, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary
AN ACT to amend the general construction law and the administrative code
of the city of New York, in relation to making daylight saving time
the permanent standard time of the state and city of New York
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 52 of the general construction law, as amended by
2 chapter 377 of the laws of 1955, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 52. Time[,]; daylight saving time permanent state standard. [1. The
4 standard time throughout this state is that of the seventy-fifth meridi-
5 an of longitude west from Greenwich, except as hereinafter provided, and
6 all courts and public officers, and legal and official proceedings,
7 shall be regulated thereby.
8 2. At] Notwithstanding how time is advanced pursuant to the federal
9 uniform time act of 1966, 15 U.S.C. §260a, at two o'clock ante meridian
10 on [the last] Sunday [in April of each year], March fourteenth, two
11 thousand twenty, the standard time throughout this state shall be
12 advanced one hour from that of the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude
13 west from Greenwich, and the time so advanced shall continue to be the
14 year-round standard time throughout this state [until the last Sunday in
15 October of the same year, when such standard time, as so advanced, shall
16 be retarded to that of the seventy-fifth meridian west from Greenwich];
17 and [during such period in each year] all courts and public officers,
18 and legal and official proceedings, shall be regulated [in accordance
19 therewith] thereby.
20 § 2. Section 2-106 of the administrative code of the city of New York
21 is amended to read as follows:
22 § 2-106 Daylight saving time permanent city standard; effect thereof
23 on public proceedings. [The standard time throughout the city of New
24 York is that of the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Green-
25 wich, except that] Notwithstanding how time is advanced pursuant to the
26 federal uniform time act of 1966, 15 U.S.C. §260a, at two o'clock ante-
27 meridian [of the last] on Sunday [in April of each year such], March
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 fourteenth, two thousand twenty, the standard time throughout the city
2 shall be advanced one hour[, and at two o'clock ante-meridian of the
3 last Sunday in October of each year, such standard time shall, by the
4 retarding of one hour, be returned to the mean astronomical time of the
5 seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich,] from that of
6 the seventy-fifth meridian of longitude west from Greenwich, and the
7 time so advanced shall continue to be the year-round standard time
8 throughout this city; and all courts, public offices and legal and offi-
9 cial proceedings shall be regulated thereby.
10 § 3. This act shall take effect upon the enactment into law by nine-
11 teen states of the United States, other than this state, of legislation
12 having an identical effect with this act, but if such other nineteen
13 states shall have already enacted such legislation, then it shall take
14 effect immediately; and provided that the commissioner of general
15 services shall notify the legislative bill drafting commission upon the
16 occurrence of the enactment of the legislation provided for in this act
17 by such states in order that the commission may maintain an accurate and
18 timely effective data base of the official text of the laws of the state
19 of New York in furtherance of effecting the provisions of section 44 of
20 the legislative law and section 70-b of the public officers law.