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Senate Bill S7417

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to directing the state commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to create a process to approve or deny certain new large urban telecommunication infrastructure

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2025-S7417 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8122
Current Committee:
Senate Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks And Recreation
Law Section:
Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §14.13, Pks & Rec L

2025-S7417 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the state commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to create a process to approve or deny any new large urban telecommunication infrastructure that is proposed to be located within two hundred feet of any site listed on the State Register or the National Register or eligible to be listed on the National Register.

2025-S7417 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7417 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7417
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 15, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the  Committee  on  Cultural  Affairs,
   Tourism, Parks and Recreation
 
 AN  ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law, in
   relation to directing the state commissioner of parks, recreation  and
   historic  preservation  to create a process to approve or deny certain
   new large urban telecommunication infrastructure
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  parks,  recreation  and historic preservation law is
 amended by adding a new section 14.13 to read as follows:
   § 14.13 NEW YORK STATE HISTORIC  DISTRICT  TELECOMMUNICATIONS.  1.  AS
 USED  IN  THIS  SECTION,  "LARGE URBAN TELECOMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE"
 MEANS FREE-STANDING STREET OR SIDEWALK PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATION  INFRAS-
 TRUCTURE GREATER THAN EIGHT FEET IN HEIGHT.
   2.  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL CREATE A PROCESS TO APPROVE OR DENY ANY NEW
 LARGE URBAN TELECOMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE  THAT  IS  PROPOSED  TO  BE
 LOCATED WITHIN TWO HUNDRED FEET OF ANY SITE LISTED ON THE STATE REGISTER
 OR THE NATIONAL REGISTER OR ELIGIBLE TO BE LISTED ON THE NATIONAL REGIS-
 TER; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT SUCH PROCESS SHALL NOT INCLUDE ANY MEASURES
 PREEMPTED  BY  SECTION  106 OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT OF
 1966.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03118-03-5

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