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Assembly Bill A2714

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the department of transportation not requiring surveying in certain situations

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2023-A2714 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6998
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Highway Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §10, Hway L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A9894
2025-2026: A480

2023-A2714 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the department of transportation shall not require a survey as part of an agreement with any fiber optic utility for use and occupancy of a state right of way for the purposes of installing, modifying, relocating, repairing, operating, or maintaining fiber optic facilities as part of the department's consolidated application, when such use and occupancy of the state right of way is utilizing existing infrastructure, including but not limited to aerial pole attachments and underground conduits.

2023-A2714 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2714
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 26, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. PAULIN, DARLING, THIELE, BURDICK, KELLES, DICK-
   ENS, LUPARDO, BUTTENSCHON, GALLAHAN, TAGUE, ANGELINO, JACOBSON,  GLICK
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to the department of trans-
   portation not requiring surveying in certain situations

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 10 of the highway law is amended by  adding  a  new
 subdivision 24-f to read as follows:
   24-F. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL NOT REQUIRE A SURVEY AS PART OF AN AGREE-
 MENT WITH ANY FIBER OPTIC UTILITY FOR USE AND OCCUPANCY OF A STATE RIGHT
 OF WAY FOR THE PURPOSES OF INSTALLING, MODIFYING, RELOCATING, REPAIRING,
 OPERATING,  OR MAINTAINING FIBER OPTIC FACILITIES AS PART OF THE DEPART-
 MENT'S CONSOLIDATED APPLICATION, WHEN SUCH  USE  AND  OCCUPANCY  OF  THE
 STATE  RIGHT  OF WAY IS UTILIZING EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE, INCLUDING BUT
 NOT LIMITED TO AERIAL POLE ATTACHMENTS AND UNDERGROUND CONDUITS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05885-01-3

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