assembly Bill A10577

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires a safety and reliability inspection of all telephone poles used by telephone corporations providing telephone service to more than one million subscribers

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Apr 08, 2010 referred to corporations, authorities and commissions

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A10577 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7469
Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง98-a, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A6181, S1777
2013-2014: A8762, S1537
2015-2016: A1140
2017-2018: A10281
2019-2020: A3332
2021-2022: A5286

A10577 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a safety and reliability inspection of all telephone poles used by telephone corporations providing telephone service to more than one million subscribers and the replacement or removal of deficient poles.

A10577 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

A10577 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  10577

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              April 8, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. HOYT -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to requiring a safe-
  ty and reliability inspection of all telephone poles used by telephone
  corporations providing telephone service  to  more  than  one  million
  subscribers and the replacement or removal of deficient poles

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

  Section 1. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby declares  that
unsafe,  inadequate  or  unreliable  telephone poles are a danger to the
general public and to telecommunications workers;  that  such  telephone
poles  impair the effective delivery of telecommunications services; and
that the public interest requires increased oversight of the safety  and
reliability  of  jurisdictional telecommunications services carried over
or by above ground telephone lines, as such are defined in article 1  of
the  public  service law; and that the public interest requires a set of
minimum fines to ensure compliance with this statute by  each  telephone
corporation serving over one million subscribers.
  S 2. The public service law is amended by adding a new section 98-a to
read as follows:
  S  98-A.  SAFETY  AND  RELIABILITY  INSPECTION.  1. THE PUBLIC SERVICE
COMMISSION SHALL, WITHIN THIRTY DAYS  OF  THE  EFFECTIVE  DATE  OF  THIS
SECTION,  REQUIRE  TELEPHONE CORPORATIONS PROVIDING TELEPHONE SERVICE TO
MORE THAN ONE MILLION SUBSCRIBERS, TO CONDUCT A STUDY OF THE SAFETY  AND
RELIABILITY  OF ALL TELEPHONE POLES USED BY SUCH CORPORATIONS TO PROVIDE
TELEPHONE SERVICE WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AND TO REPORT  UPON  THE
FOLLOWING FACTORS:
  (A) THE TOTAL NUMBER OF TELEPHONE POLES PER COUNTY;
  (B) THE NUMBER OF TELEPHONE POLES WITHIN EACH COUNTY THAT ARE SPLIT OR
SHATTERED FOR MORE THAN FIVE PERCENT OF THE LENGTH OF SUCH POLES;
  (C)  THE  NUMBER  OF  TELEPHONE  POLES  PER COUNTY THAT ARE SEVERED OR
PARTIALLY SEVERED FROM THEIR BASE;

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD16730-02-0