New York Assembly Bill A07456 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7456--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY May 23, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BENEDETTO -- 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 general business law, in relation to prohibiting residential and commercial properties from operating digital bill- boards or signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving lights near certain Mitchell-Lama housing The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 2 397-b to read as follows: 3 § 397-b. Digital billboards. 1. All residential and commercial proper- 4 ty within fifteen hundred feet of a building used as Mitchell-Lama hous- 5 ing with no fewer than ten thousand units within a city with a popu- 6 lation of one million or more shall be prohibited from operating a 7 digital billboard or other type of billboard or sign that uses flashing, 8 intermittent or moving lights. 9 2. As used in this section, the term "digital billboard" shall mean a 10 one or multi-sided outdoor advertising sign that displays digital images 11 using light-emitting diode technology or any such similar technology. 12 3. Any municipality with property described under subdivision one of 13 this section may, by local law, expressly restrict or prohibit the use 14 of outdoor advertising signage within fifteen hundred feet of residen- 15 tial property. 16 4. A violation of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a 17 civil penalty of one thousand dollars for the first violation, and five 18 thousand dollars for all subsequent violations. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 20 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05118-08-3