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                                  3379--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of A. RAGA, ALVAREZ -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
   relation to requiring the New York city department  of  transportation
   to provide notice to schools of certain construction projects
 
   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 19-101.5 to read as follows:
   § 19-101.5 NOTIFICATION OF SCHOOLS OF CONSTRUCTION WORK. A.  NO  LATER
 THAN FOURTEEN DAYS PRIOR TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF ANY CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
 TO  BE  UNDERTAKEN  BY  THE  DEPARTMENT WITHIN THREE HUNDRED FEET OF ANY
 BUILDING OPERATED BY THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK OR
 A NONPUBLIC SCHOOL OR CHARTER SCHOOL LOCATED WITHIN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
 WHERE SUCH BUILDING IS USED  FOR  STUDENT  INSTRUCTION,  THE  DEPARTMENT
 SHALL  PROVIDE  WRITTEN NOTICE TO SUCH SCHOOL DISTRICT OR SUCH NONPUBLIC
 SCHOOL  OR  CHARTER  SCHOOL.  SUCH  WRITTEN  NOTICE  SHALL   INCLUDE   A
 DESCRIPTION  OF  LOCATION OF SUCH CONSTRUCTION.  NO WRITTEN NOTICE SHALL
 BE REQUIRED  PURSUANT  TO  THIS  SECTION  WHEN  THE  COMMENCEMENT  OF  A
 CONSTRUCTION PROJECT IS IN RESPONSE TO AN EMERGENCY.
   B.  (I)  THE  TERM  "CONSTRUCTION"  AS  USED IN THIS SECTION MEANS THE
 ERECTION,  BUILDING,  OR  SUBSTANTIAL  ACQUISITION,  ALTERATION,  RECON-
 STRUCTION,  IMPROVEMENT,  EXTENSION  OR  MODIFICATION,  INCLUDING PUBLIC
 UTILITY IMPROVEMENTS, OF A HIGHWAY, SIDEWALK OR APPURTENANCE THEREOF.
   (II) THE TERM "EMERGENCY" AS USED IN THIS SECTION  MEANS  A  SITUATION
 INVOLVING  DANGER  TO  LIFE, SAFETY OR PROPERTY WHICH REQUIRES IMMEDIATE
 ACTION, IS ESSENTIAL TO EFFICIENT OPERATION OR THE ADEQUATE PROVISION OF
 SERVICE BY A MUNICIPALITY, SCHOOL  DISTRICT,  NONPUBLIC  SCHOOL  OR  THE
 STATE,  AND  IS  A DIRECT CONSEQUENCE OF AN ACCIDENT OR OTHER UNFORESEEN
 CIRCUMSTANCE.
   § 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.
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