Assembly Bill A8539

Signed By Governor
2023-2024 Legislative Session

Prohibits residential and commercial properties from erecting or installing digital billboards or signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving lights near certain Mitchell-Lama housing

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Current Bill Status Via S8025 - Signed by Governor


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-A8539 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8025
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §397-b, Gen Bus L; amd §2, Chap of 2023 (as proposed in S.1931-B & A.7456-A)

2023-A8539 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits residential and commercial properties from erecting or installing digital billboards or signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving lights near certain Mitchell-Lama housing within a city with a population of one million or more; relates to the effectiveness thereof.

2023-A8539 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8539
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 8, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BENEDETTO  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
   residential  and  commercial  properties  from  erecting or installing
   digital billboards or signs that use flashing, intermittent or  moving
   lights  near  certain Mitchell-Lama housing; and to amend a chapter of
   the laws of 2023 amending the general business law relating to prohib-
   iting residential and commercial  properties  from  operating  digital
   billboards  or  signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving lights
   near certain Mitchell-Lama housing, as proposed in  legislative  bills
   numbers S.1931-B and A.7456-A, in relation to the effectiveness there-
   of
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 397-b of the general business law, as  added  by  a
 chapter  of  the laws of 2023 amending the general business law relating
 to prohibiting residential  and  commercial  properties  from  operating
 digital  billboards  or  signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving
 lights near certain Mitchell-Lama housing, as  proposed  in  legislative
 bills numbers S.1931-B and A.7456-A, is amended to read as follows:
   § 397-b. Digital billboards. 1. All residential and commercial proper-
 ty  within  [fifteen  hundred]  ONE  THOUSAND feet of a building used as
 Mitchell-Lama housing with no fewer than ten  thousand  units  within  a
 city  with  a population of one million or more shall be prohibited from
 [operating] ERECTING OR INSTALLING, AFTER THE  EFFECTIVE  DATE  OF  THIS
 SECTION,  a  digital  billboard  or other type of billboard or sign that
 uses flashing, intermittent or moving lights, AND  FROM  OPERATING  SUCH
 BILLBOARD.  IN  CITIES  WITH  A  POPULATION  OF ONE MILLION OR MORE, THE
 PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION MAY BE ENFORCED CONCURRENTLY  BY  THE  CORPO-
 RATION COUNSEL OR OTHER LAWFUL DESIGNEE OF SUCH CITY.
   2.  As used in this section, the term "digital billboard" shall mean a
 one or multi-sided outdoor advertising sign that displays digital images
 using light-emitting diode technology or any such similar technology.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05118-09-4
              

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