Increases penalties relating to the protection of underground facilities.
Sponsor: Nolan
Law Section: General Business Law
Law: Amd S765, Gen Bus L
Co-sponsor(s):
Simotas
Committee: RULES
Law Section: General Business Law
Law: Amd S765, Gen Bus L
A6354-2011 Actions
- Jun 19, 2012: REFERRED TO RULES
- Jun 19, 2012: delivered to senate
- Jun 19, 2012: passed assembly
- May 24, 2012: advanced to third reading cal.635
- May 22, 2012: reported
- Feb 14, 2012: reported referred to codes
- Jan 4, 2012: referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
- May 4, 2011: reference changed to corporations, authorities and commissions
- Mar 15, 2011: referred to economic development
A6354-2011 Text
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
6354
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N ASSEMBLY
March 15, 2011
___________
Introduced by M. of A. NOLAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to increasing the
penalties for failure to comply with provisions relating to the
protection of underground facilities law
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 765 of the general
business law, as amended by chapter 685 of the laws of 1994, is amended
to read as follows:
a. Failure to comply with any provision of this article shall subject
an excavator or an operator to a civil penalty of up to [one] FIVE thou-
sand dollars for the first violation and up to an additional [seven]
FIFTEEN thousand [five hundred] dollars for each succeeding violation
which occurs in connection with the entire self-same excavation or demo-
lition activity within a two month period.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09850-01-1

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