New York Senate Bill S01931 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1931--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 17, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection -- 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 located within Co-op City, Bronx county, from operating digital billboards or signs that use flashing, intermittent or moving lights near residential property 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 residential property located between 5 interstate route ninety-five on the west and the Hutchinson river park- 6 way on the east within Bronx county 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. A city, village, or town may, by local law, expressly restrict or 13 prohibit the use of outdoor advertising signage within fifteen hundred 14 feet of residential property and commercial property. 15 4. A violation of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a 16 civil penalty of one thousand dollars for the first violation, and five 17 thousand dollars for all subsequent violations. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 19 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05118-02-3