S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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125
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. EICHENSTEIN -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Cities
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to creating the blue light emergency phones pilot program and
to direct the commissioner of parks and recreation to study and report
upon the use of such program
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
by adding a new section 18-165 to read as follows:
§ 18-165 BLUE LIGHT EMERGENCY PHONES PILOT PROGRAM. IN ONE PARK, OPER-
ATED BY OR UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE DEPARTMENT, IN EACH OF THE FIVE
BOROUGHS, THE DEPARTMENT SHALL IMPLEMENT A BLUE LIGHT EMERGENCY PHONES
PILOT PROGRAM FOR THE PURPOSE OF PUBLIC SAFETY. UNDER SUCH PROGRAM, THE
DEPARTMENT SHALL INSTALL BLUE LIGHTED EMERGENCY PHONES THAT, WHEN USED,
SHALL AUTOMATICALLY DIAL 9-1-1 AND RING DIRECTLY TO THE POLICE DEPART-
MENT.
§ 2. The commissioner of parks and recreation shall cause a study to
be performed to analyze how the implementation of blue light emergency
phones pilot program in parks impacts public safety compared to parks
without such a program.
§ 3. On or before three hundred sixty-five days after all five
locations identified for the blue light emergency phones pilot program
have become operational, the commissioner of parks and recreation shall
complete the study conducted pursuant to section two of this act and
shall thereafter deliver a copy of the findings of the study and any
legislative recommendations deemed to be necessary to the governor, the
temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and the
mayor of the city of New York.
§ 4. 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
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