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Senate Bill S6527

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires municipalities to provide notice of certain construction projects

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2011-S6527 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Local Government
Law Section:
General Municipal Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง79, Gen Muni L

2011-S6527 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires municipalities to provide notice of certain construction projects to those living within such municipality and those living within 500 feet of such projects.

2011-S6527 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S6527 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6527

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 23, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  MARCELLINO  -- read twice and ordered printed, and
  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government

AN ACT to amend the general municipal  law,  in  relation  to  providing
  notice of certain construction projects

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

  Section 1.   The general municipal law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
section 79 to read as follows:
  S  79.  NOTICE  OF  CONSTRUCTION  PROJECTS.  1.  FOR  PURPOSES OF THIS
SECTION:
  (A) THE TERMS "CONSTRUCTION  PROJECT"  OR  "PROJECT"  SHALL  MEAN  THE
ERECTION  OF  ANY NEW BUILDING OR FACILITY BY ANY MUNICIPALITY AND SHALL
INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO A WATER TOWER, FIRE  STATION,  WASTEWATER
TREATMENT  PLANT  OR MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT BUILDING. SUCH TERMS SHALL NOT
INCLUDE ANY ROAD OR HIGHWAY WORK, REPAVING OR RESURFACING.
  (B) "MUNICIPALITY" SHALL MEAN ANY CITY, TOWN, VILLAGE, COUNTY, AND ANY
DISTRICTS THEREOF, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO  ANY  SEWER,  DRAINAGE,
WATER,  WATER  QUALITY  TREATMENT,  PARK, PUBLIC PARKING, LIGHTING, SNOW
REMOVAL, WATER SUPPLY, SIDEWALK, REFUSE AND  GARBAGE  DISTRICT,  AQUATIC
PLANT GROWTH CONTROL DISTRICT OR AMBULANCE DISTRICT.
  2.  WITHIN  SIXTY  DAYS  PRIOR TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF ANY CONSTRUCTION
PROJECT, THE MUNICIPALITY RESPONSIBLE FOR SUCH PROJECT SHALL NOTIFY,  IN
WRITING,  EVERY  PERSON  WHOSE  PROPERTY BOUNDARY IS WITHIN FIVE HUNDRED
FEET OF THE PROPERTY BOUNDARY OF SUCH CONSTRUCTION  PROJECT,  REGARDLESS
OF WHAT MUNICIPALITY SUCH PERSONS RESIDE IN.
  3.  THE  NOTICE  PROVIDED FOR IN SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION SHALL
INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE  LIMITED  TO  INFORMATION  ABOUT  THE  SIZE  OF  THE
PROJECT,  THE CURRENT USE OF THE PROPERTY AND THE INTENDED USE AFTER THE
COMPLETION OF SUCH PROJECT.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14627-02-2

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