Senate Bill S4349

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Directs the public service commission to implement rules requiring public utility companies to remove or relocate their utility poles when necessary for road improvements

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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-S4349 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §5, Pub Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7972
2019-2020: S3176
2021-2022: S6095
2023-2024: S4770

2015-S4349 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the public service commission to implement rules requiring public utility companies to remove or relocate their utility poles when necessary for road improvements.

2015-S4349 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S4349 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4349

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             March 16, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on  Energy  and  Telecommuni-
  cations

AN  ACT  to  amend  the public service law, in relation to directing the
  public service commission  to  require  public  utility  companies  to
  remove or relocate utility poles upon the completion of public roadway
  improvements

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

  Section 1. Section 5 of the public service law is amended by adding  a
new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
  7.  THE  COMMISSION  SHALL  ADOPT  AND IMPLEMENT RULES AND REGULATIONS
REQUIRING EACH PUBLIC UTILITY  COMPANY,  WHICH  EXERCISES  CONTROL  OVER
UTILITY  POLES,  TO REMOVE OR RELOCATE ANY SUCH POLES AS SHALL BE DETER-
MINED TO BE NECESSARY BY THE STATE OR ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION  THEREOF
IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OR IMPROVEMENT OF ANY PUBLIC ROADWAY
BY  THE STATE OR SUCH POLITICAL SUBDIVISION. SUCH UTILITY POLES SHALL BE
REMOVED OR RELOCATED, AS THE CASE MAY BE,  WITHIN  NINETY  DAYS  OF  THE
RECEIPT  BY  THE  PUBLIC  UTILITY COMPANY OF NOTICE, FROM THE STATE OR A
POLITICAL SUBDIVISION, THAT THE PUBLIC ROADWAY  HAS  BEEN  COMPLETED  OR
IMPROVED.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD09960-01-5

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