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Senate Bill S8893

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-S8893 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10988
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §399-yyyy, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S695, A3921
2023-2024: S2996, A88
2025-2026: S4902, A2670

2019-S8893 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2019-S8893 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S8893 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8893
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              August 11, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 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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