Assembly Bill A1140

2015-2016 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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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A1140 (ACTIVE) - Details

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:
2009-2010: A10577
2011-2012: A6181
2013-2014: A8762
2017-2018: A10281
2019-2020: A3332
2021-2022: A5286

2015-A1140 (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.

2015-A1140 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  1140

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             January 8, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. ABINANTI, BUCHWALD -- 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  requiring a safety and reliability inspection of all
  utility poles used by electric corporations providing electric service
  to over 300,000 customers 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 and electrical utility poles
are a danger to the general public and to telecommunications  and  elec-
trical utility workers; that such telephone and electrical utility poles
impair  the  effective delivery of telecommunications services; and that
the public interest requires increased oversight of the safety and reli-
ability of  jurisdictional  telecommunications  and  electrical  utility
services carried over or by above ground telephone and electrical utili-
ty  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  and  each  electric  corporation  serving  over
300,000 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,  AND  ELECTRIC  CORPORATIONS  SERVING
OVER  THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND CUSTOMERS, TO CONDUCT A STUDY OF THE SAFETY

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04597-01-5
              

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