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Assembly Bill A5546

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to consents to public utilities; licenses and easements

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2019-A5546 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Tourism, Parks, Arts And Sports Development
Law Section:
Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §13.06, Pks & Rec L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A6073
2017-2018: A5706
2021-2022: A5647
2023-2024: A5403
2025-2026: A2395

2019-A5546 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to consents to public utilities, licenses and easements; allows the commissioner or other state agency to grant a county a license or easement for any public purpose or to construct or maintain sewers, water and property.

2019-A5546 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5546
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 13, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development
 
 AN  ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law, in
   relation to consents to public utilities; licenses and easements
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 13.06 of the parks, recreation and historic preser-
 vation law, as renumbered by chapter 349 of the laws of 1983, is amended
 to read as follows:
   §   13.06  Consents  to  public  utilities;  licenses  and  easements.
 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no railroad, bus line, tele-
 phone or telegraph company, gas,  power  or  light  company,  pipe  line
 company  or  other  public  utility  shall  have the right to pass over,
 through or under any property acquired by  the  office  or  other  state
 agency  for park, recreational or historic preservation purposes, except
 by written consent, in the form of a license or easement, granted by the
 commissioner, or such state agency, and then only under such regulations
 and restrictions as the commissioner or such  state  agency  shall  deem
 proper.  The  commissioner or other state agency shall have the right to
 grant to any person, COUNTY or the federal government a  license  or  an
 easement  for  any  public  purpose  or to construct or maintain sewers,
 water, petroleum products, gas lines and electric  transmission  facili-
 ties  within,  under or across such property, upon such terms and condi-
 tions and under such regulations and restrictions as the commissioner or
 such state agency shall deem just and proper.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08152-01-9

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