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Assembly Bill A4759

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Enacts the broadband deployment act

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2009-A4759 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 13-E §§300 - 304, Gen Muni L; amd §§52 & 136, Hway L

2009-A4759 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the broadband deployment act; requires municipalities to grant access to the use of rights-of-way, easements, and public places; requires that a municipality adopt only neutrally competitive and nondiscriminatory rules and regulations.

2009-A4759 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  4759

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 6, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. MORELLE, ORTIZ, SCHIMMINGER -- Multi-Sponsored by
  --  M. of A. COOK, DelMONTE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

AN ACT to amend the general  municipal  law  and  the  highway  law,  in
  relation to enacting the "broadband deployment act" and to provide for
  the  rapid  deployment  of broadband telecommunications facilities and
  infrastructure in this state

  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  availability of state and local rights-of-way to telecommunications
providers. Cities, towns and villages in New York state have  long  been
responsible for the acquisition, care, management and use of their high-
way,  roads,  streets, avenues and property under article 9 of the state
constitution and implemented by section 10 of the  municipal  home  rule
law  and  the statutes of local government. While municipal control over
rights-of-way is an essential component of municipal home  rule  in  the
state  of  New  York,  the legislature must also recognize the important
federal, state and local interests in facilitating the rapid  deployment
of  competitive telecommunications facilities and infrastructure in this
state by prohibiting the undue restraint and regulation of access to and
use  of  rights-of-way,  easements,  or  public  places.  Encouraging  a
rational  build-out of a state-of-the-art telecommunications infrastruc-
ture will ensure that every person has access to  broadband  information
networks,  improve opportunities for economic development and the deliv-
ery of essential services including education and health care, encourage
the introduction of new services, the entry of new  providers,  and  the
development of new technologies.
  S  2.  Short title. This act shall be known as and may be cited as the
"broadband deployment act".

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08457-01-9
              

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