Bill Text: NY A08235 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the public service commission to notify any municipality or government entity proposing to acquire title to and transfer ownership of the complete system of street light luminaires or fixtures, all supporting infrastructure, and associated electric circuitry of the health hazards, the lack of United States Food and Drug Administration regulation of light emitting diodes, "LED", lighting products, and the requirement that municipalities that operate LED street lights are required to publish an American with disabilities accommodation plan.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A08235 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08235-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8235

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    November 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN ACT to amend the public service law, in relation to street lights

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 70-a of the public service law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
     3    1-a. The commission shall notify any municipality or government entity
     4  proposing to acquire title to and transfer  ownership  of  the  complete
     5  system  of  street  light luminaires or fixtures, all supporting infras-
     6  tructure, and associated electric circuitry of the  health  hazards,  of
     7  the  lack  of  United  States Food and Drug Administration regulation of
     8  light emitting diodes, "LED", lighting  products,  and  the  requirement
     9  that  municipalities  that  operate  LED  street  lights are required to
    10  publish an Americans with disabilities accommodation plan.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect  immediately.  Effective  immediately,
    12  the  addition,  amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
    13  sary for the implementation of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are
    14  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13493-01-3