Senate Bill S6998

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the department of transportation not requiring surveying in certain situations

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S6998 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2714
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Highway Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §10, Hway L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A9894

2023-S6998 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the department of transportation shall not require a survey as part of an agreement with any fiber optic utility for use and occupancy of a state right of way for the purposes of installing, modifying, relocating, repairing, operating, or maintaining fiber optic facilities as part of the department's consolidated application, when such use and occupancy of the state right of way is utilizing existing infrastructure, including but not limited to aerial pole attachments and underground conduits.

2023-S6998 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S6998 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6998
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to the department of trans-
   portation not requiring surveying in certain situations
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  10 of the highway law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 24-f to read as follows:
   24-F. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL NOT REQUIRE A SURVEY AS PART OF AN AGREE-
 MENT WITH ANY FIBER OPTIC UTILITY FOR USE AND OCCUPANCY OF A STATE RIGHT
 OF WAY FOR THE PURPOSES OF INSTALLING, MODIFYING, RELOCATING, REPAIRING,
 OPERATING, OR MAINTAINING FIBER OPTIC FACILITIES AS PART OF THE  DEPART-
 MENT'S  CONSOLIDATED  APPLICATION,  WHEN  SUCH  USE AND OCCUPANCY OF THE
 STATE RIGHT OF WAY IS UTILIZING EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE,  INCLUDING  BUT
 NOT LIMITED TO AERIAL POLE ATTACHMENTS AND UNDERGROUND CONDUITS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05885-01-3



              

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