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                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 18, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  KRUGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to public notice
         of certain hazardous conditions by the New York city transit authority
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  Section 1204-a of the public authorities law is amended by
    2  adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
    3    2-A. IN ALL SUBWAY STATIONS WHERE THE NOISE LEVEL MEASURED FOR PASSEN-
    4  GERS ACCORDING TO PARAGRAPH B OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION EXCEEDS
    5  90  DB  THE  AUTHORITY  SHALL  CONSPICUOUSLY POST IN A MANNER VISIBLE TO
    6  PASSENGERS EXPOSED TO SUCH NOISE LEVEL A SIGN STATING:
    7    THE LEVEL OF NOISE IN THIS STATION REGULARLY EXCEEDS 90 DB.    MEDICAL
    8  EXPERIMENTS  HAVE  PROVEN  THAT EXTENDED EXPOSURE TO NOISE AT, OR ABOVE,
    9  THIS LEVEL WILL RESULT IN A LOSS OF HEARING AND MAY BE HARMFUL  TO  YOUR
   10  HEALTH. THE USE OF HEARING PROTECTORS IS RECOMMENDED. FOR FURTHER INFOR-
   11  MATION  CALL THE NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT AUTHORITY AT (TELEPHONE NUMBER TO
   12  BE PROVIDED BY THE AUTHORITY).
   13    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   14  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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