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Assembly Bill A7811A

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires a minimum height requirement of 2,500 feet while helicopters or other small aircraft are flying over cities, towns, villages or settlements

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2009-A7811 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §245, Gen Bus L

2009-A7811 - Summary

Requires a minimum height requirement of 2,500 feet while helicopters and smell aircraft carrying ten or fewer passengers are flying over cities, towns, villages or settlements.

2009-A7811 - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7811

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 24, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ALESSI -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Local Governments

AN  ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to minimum height
  requirements of helicopters over congested cities, towns, villages  or
  settlements

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

  Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 245 of the gener-
al business law, as amended by chapter 518  of  the  laws  of  1967,  is
amended to read as follows:
  (b)  Over  congested  areas.  Over  congested  areas of cities, towns,
villages or settlements, or over an open-air  assembly  of  persons,  an
altitude  of one thousand feet above the highest obstacle within a hori-
zontal radius of two thousand feet from the aircraft.  Helicopters [may]
SHALL NOT be flown at less than [the minimum prescribed herein  if  such
operations  are  conducted  without hazard to persons or property on the
surface and at an] TWO THOUSAND FIVE  HUNDRED  FEET;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER
THEY  MAY BE FLOWN AT LESS THAN SUCH altitude which will permit an emer-
gency landing without  undue  hazard  to  persons  or  property  on  the
surface;
  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.
                                                           LBD11074-01-9

2009-A7811A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Local Governments
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §245, Gen Bus L

2009-A7811A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a minimum height requirement of 2,500 feet while helicopters and smell aircraft carrying ten or fewer passengers are flying over cities, towns, villages or settlements.

2009-A7811A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-A7811A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 7811--A

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 24, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ALESSI -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on  Local Governments -- recommitted to the Committee on Local Govern-
  ments in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to said committee

AN  ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to minimum height
  requirements of helicopters and small aircraft over congested  cities,
  towns, villages or settlements

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

  Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 of section 245 of the gener-
al business law, as amended by chapter 518  of  the  laws  of  1967,  is
amended to read as follows:
  (b)  Over  congested  areas.  Over  congested  areas of cities, towns,
villages or settlements, or over an open-air  assembly  of  persons,  an
altitude  of one thousand feet above the highest obstacle within a hori-
zontal radius of two thousand feet from the aircraft.  Helicopters [may]
AND SMALL AIRCRAFT CARRYING TEN OR FEWER PASSENGERS SHALL NOT  be  flown
at  less  than  [the  minimum  prescribed  herein if such operations are
conducted without hazard to persons or property on the  surface  and  at
an]  TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FEET; PROVIDED, HOWEVER THEY MAY BE FLOWN
AT LESS THAN SUCH altitude which will permit an emergency landing  with-
out undue hazard to persons or property on the surface;
  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.
                                                           LBD11074-02-0

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