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Assembly Bill A10988

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires cell towers to be equipped with a back-up power source in case of a power outage

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2019-A10988 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8893
Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §399-yyyy, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A3921, S695
2023-2024: A88, S2996
2025-2026: A2670, S4902

2019-A10988 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires cell towers to be equipped with a back-up power source in case of a power outage.

2019-A10988 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10988
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             September 9, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Sayegh) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on  Corporations,  Authorities
   and Commissions
 
 AN  ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring cell
   towers to be equipped with a back-up power source in case of  a  power
   outage
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 399-yyyy to read as follows:
   § 399-YYYY. CELLULAR NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE; BACKUP POWER. 1.    EVERY
 OWNER  OR  OPERATOR  OF  CELLULAR NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE LOCATED IN THIS
 STATE SHALL EQUIP ALL SUCH CELLULAR NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE WITH AN EMER-
 GENCY BACK-UP POWER SOURCE CAPABLE OF PROVIDING ADEQUATE POWER TO  MAIN-
 TAIN  THE  OPERATION OF SUCH CELLULAR NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE CASE
 OF A LOSS OF POWER.
   2. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "CELLULAR NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE"
 SHALL MEAN ANY PART OF A RADIO TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK THAT  PROVIDES
 WIRELESS  COMMUNICATIONS  INFRASTRUCTURE  TO  SUPPORT  CELLULAR  PHONES,
 LOCATED THROUGHOUT A GEOGRAPHICAL  COVERAGE  AREA,  INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT
 LIMITED TO, CELL TOWERS.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD17098-02-0

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