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Assembly Bill A4066

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to notice requirements and municipal cooperation in wireless facility siting

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2019-A4066 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3046
Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Service Law
Laws Affected:
Add §119-d, Pub Serv L

2019-A4066 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to notice requirements and municipal cooperation in wireless facility siting; requires notification be provided to municipalities in which wireless facilities are to be sited and to residents within two thousand five hundred feet of proposed wireless facilities.

2019-A4066 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
     S. 3046                                                  A. 4066
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                       S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2019
                                ___________
 
 IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed,  and  when  printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and
   Telecommunications
 
 IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred  to
   the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

 AN  ACT  to amend the public service law, in relation to notice require-
   ments and municipal cooperation in wireless facility siting
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The public service law is amended by adding a new section
 119-d to read as follows:
   §  119-D.  WIRELESS  SITING  NOTICE;  MUNICIPAL  COOPERATION.  1.  FOR
 PURPOSES  OF THIS SECTION "WIRELESS FACILITY" MEANS ANY FACILITY USED IN
 CONNECTION WITH THE PROVISION OF COMMERCIAL  MOBILE  SERVICES,  AS  THAT
 TERM IS DEFINED IN SECTION 332(D) OF TITLE 47, UNITED STATES CODE; WIRE-
 LESS FACILITY SHALL INCLUDE, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, ANTENNAS, SMALL CELL
 INFRASTRUCTURE, ANCILLARY EQUIPMENT AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS TOWERS.
   2.  PRIOR  TO  ANY TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANY OR CELLULAR COMMUNICATION
 COMPANY INSTALLING A WIRELESS FACILITY IN THE STATE, SUCH COMPANY SHALL,
 NOT LESS THAN SIXTY DAYS BEFORE THE PLANNED INSTALLATION OF  SUCH  WIRE-
 LESS FACILITY:
   A.  PROVIDE  WRITTEN  NOTICE  TO  ALL OWNERS AND RESIDENTS OF PROPERTY
 LOCATED WITHIN TWO THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF SUCH PROPOSED  WIRELESS
 FACILITY;
   B. PROVIDE WRITTEN NOTICE TO THE MUNICIPALITIES IN WHICH SUCH PROPOSED
 WIRELESS FACILITY IS LOCATED;
   C.  SOLICIT  SUGGESTIONS  FROM  MUNICIPALITIES  IN WHICH SUCH PROPOSED
 WIRELESS FACILITY IS LOCATED FOR EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE WHICH IS  TECH-
 NICALLY  AND  COMMERCIALLY  FEASIBLE  FOR CO-LOCATION WITH SUCH PROPOSED
 WIRELESS FACILITY; AND
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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