S3391-2013 Actions

• Feb 1, 2013: REFERRED TO CITIES

S3391-2013 Memo

BILL NUMBER:S3391

TITLE  OF  BILL:    An act to amend the general city law, in relation to
requiring notice of public work projects to residents in certain cities

PURPOSE:  To inform residents within a 1/2 mile  radius  of  the  public
work  to  be  performed  to  forewarn  of possible service interruptions
and/or nuisances linked to the duration of the public work project.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: Amends General City law, Section 18(e), whereby the  city  is
to notify residents within cities of a population of one million or more
public work projects that will exceed duration of forty-eight hours.

Section 2: Effective date.

JUSTIFICATION:   Due to high volumes of congestion experienced in cities
brought on from motor vehicles on the road and/or  foot  traffic,  resi-
dents  within these urban areas must cope with nuisances. An additional,
taxing nuisance is construction, repairs or other  public  work  brought
forth  from  the  city. To diffuse frustration experienced by residents,
and to inform residents of such work taking place,  residents  shall  be
notified  of  the  approximate  amount  of time it will take the City to
complete such work. Doing so allows residents to  plan  accordingly  and
navigate  any  inconveniences  that may be brought on by the public work
projects.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:  2011: S.5023-A Referred to Cities Committee  2012:
S.5023-A  Referred  to  Cities Committee, Discharged to Rules Committee,
Ordered to Third Reading, Recommitted to Rules Committee

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:  None perceived.

EFFECTIVE DATE:  Shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it  becomes
a law.

S3391-2013 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         3391
 2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 February 1, 2013
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities
 

AN ACT to amend the general city law, in relation to requiring notice of
 public work projects to residents in certain cities
 THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

Section  1.  The  general  city law is amended by adding a new section
 18-e to read as follows:

 

S 18-E. NOTICE OF CONSTRUCTION, REPAIRS, PUBLIC WORK. ANY CITY WITH  A
 POPULATION  OF  ONE  MILLION  OR  MORE  SHALL,  WITHIN THREE DAYS OF ANY
 CONSTRUCTION PROJECT, REPAIR WORK PROJECT OR OTHER PUBLIC WORK  PROJECT,
 NOTIFY  RESIDENTS  WITHIN A HALF MILE RADIUS OF THE WORK SITE WHERE SUCH
 PROJECT WILL BE PERFORMED OF SUCH PROJECT. SUCH  NOTICE  SHALL  BE  MADE
 WITH SUFFICIENT SIGNAGE TO READILY NOTIFY SUCH RESIDENTS OF THE EXPECTED
 DURATION  OF SUCH PROJECT, ANY INTERRUPTION IN UTILITY SERVICES, AND THE
 GENERAL DETAILS OF THE WORK TO BE PERFORMED.  ANY CONSTRUCTION  PROJECT,
 REPAIR WORK PROJECT OR OTHER PUBLIC WORK PROJECT TO BE PERFORMED WHICH A
 CITY  ANTICIPATES  WILL BE LESS THAN FORTY-EIGHT HOURS IN DURATION SHALL
 NOT BE SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION, UNLESS A DISRUPTION IN
 A UTILITY SERVICE IS EXPECTED.
 

S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01042-01-3

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