Requires the department of transportation to include in its existing vegetative management program the removal of invasive vines which are so hazardous that they pose an imminent danger of causing trees or tree limbs to fall onto highways.
Requires the department of transportation to include in its existing vegetative management program the removal of invasive vines which are so hazardous that they pose an imminent danger of causing trees or tree limbs to fall onto highways.
Requires a medical equipment service agency that has supplied oxygen or an oxygen delivery system to a patient to notify the appropriate fire department or company serving the municipality in which the patient resides of the name, address, and age of the patient and the existence of the oxygen or oxygen delivery system at the patient's residence; provides for informed consent; requires notice to the fire department of removal of such equipment.
Provides that in the siting of new electric transmission facilities, including high-voltage transmission lines, the following corridors shall be utilized in the following order of priority in accordance with feasibility of economic and engineering considerations, reliability of the electric system and the protection of the environment: existing utility corridors; highway (interstate, freeway and state trunk) and railroad corridors; recreational trails, to the extent that the facilities may be constructed below ground and that the facilities do not significantly impact environmentally sensitive areas; and new corridors; provides that the commissioner of transportation shall engage in coordination activities with a utility or transmission line developer to review requested highway corridors for possible permitted locations of transmission lines.
Requires hospitals to establish a violence prevention program which includes a workplace safety and security assessment and develop a safety and security plan that addresses identified workplace violence threats or hazards.