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Assembly Bill A5994

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Enacts the wireless facility siting act

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2009-A5994 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Cities
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 13-E §§300 - 306, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A3843
2013-2014: A1686
2015-2016: A4746
2017-2018: A4506
2019-2020: A4927
2021-2022: A3945
2023-2024: A2636
2025-2026: A3147

2009-A5994 - Summary

Enacts the "wireless facility siting act"; directs cities, towns and villages to regulate the siting of cellular communications facilities; directs the department of health to study health effects of cellular signals and emissions and report thereon within 1 year.

2009-A5994 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  5994

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 23, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Energy

AN  ACT  to enact the "wireless facility siting act"; to establish a one
  hundred twenty day moratorium upon the construction of wireless facil-
  ities in cities; to amend the general municipal law,  in  relation  to
  the  placement,  construction  and  modification  of wireless services
  facilities; to direct the department of health to study, evaluate  and
  make  recommendations on the health effects of radio frequency signals
  and microwave energy emitted by wireless communications service facil-
  ities and wireless  communications  devices;  and  providing  for  the
  repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Legislative intent. In 1996,  the  United  States  Congress
adopted the Telecommunications Act of 1996 which addresses, in part, the
siting  of  wireless  services facilities and the authority of state and
local governments to regulate the placement, construction and  modifica-
tion  of  such  facilities.   While municipal control over the siting of
wireless services facilities is an important component of municipal home
rule in the state of New York, the legislature  nevertheless  recognizes
the  similarly important federal, state and local interests of providing
for wireless services to the public in a manner that addresses state and
local concerns.  As such, the legislature has  identified  the  need  to
balance federal interests with local concerns by providing for an appro-
priate  and  efficient  process  of municipal review for applications to
site, construct and modify wireless services  facilities.    It  is  the
intent of the legislature in adopting the "wireless facility siting act"
to  implement  enabling  legislation  which  specifically  sets  forth a
uniform statewide process for municipal review of applications  for  the
placement, construction and modification of wireless services facilities
in cities.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05276-01-9
              

2009-A5994A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Cities
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 13-E §§300 - 306, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A3843
2013-2014: A1686
2015-2016: A4746
2017-2018: A4506
2019-2020: A4927
2021-2022: A3945
2023-2024: A2636
2025-2026: A3147

2009-A5994A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "wireless facility siting act"; directs cities, towns and villages to regulate the siting of cellular communications facilities; directs the department of health to study health effects of cellular signals and emissions and report thereon within 1 year.

2009-A5994A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-A5994A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                 5994--A

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 23, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced   by   M.  of  A.  COLTON,  CYMBROWITZ,  BENEDETTO,  KELLNER,
  HYER-SPENCER, ROSENTHAL, WRIGHT, ENGLEBRIGHT, KOON, REILLY,  ROBINSON,
  JAFFEE,  MARKEY, MENG, HOOPER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. FINCH,
  GLICK, HIKIND, PHEFFER, THIELE, TITUS, WEISENBERG  --  read  once  and
  referred to the Committee on Energy -- recommitted to the Committee on
  Energy  in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2 -- committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to said committee

AN ACT to enact the "wireless facility siting act"; to establish  a  one
  hundred twenty day moratorium upon the construction of wireless facil-
  ities  in  cities;  to amend the general municipal law, in relation to
  the placement, construction  and  modification  of  wireless  services
  facilities;  to direct the department of health to study, evaluate and
  make recommendations on the health effects of radio frequency  signals
  and microwave energy emitted by wireless communications service facil-
  ities  and  wireless  communications  devices;  and  providing for the
  repeal of certain provisions upon expiration thereof

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Legislative intent.  Municipal control over the siting of
wireless services facilities is an important component of municipal home
rule.  The legislature recognizes the federal, state and local interests
of providing for proper and convenient wireless services to the  public.
As  such,  the  legislature  needs to balance the interests of providing
quality wireless communication services with local concerns on the inap-
propriate siting of telecommunications towers. This act provides  for  a
process  of  municipal  review  for  applications to site, construct and
modify wireless services facilities.  Such process must incorporate  the
needs  and  desires  of  the  local community, with regard to the public
health, environmental and aesthetic ramifications of such siting. It  is
the  intent of the legislature in adopting the "wireless facility siting

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05276-08-0
              

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