New York Senate Bill S04175 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4175 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi- ty and Military Affairs AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to including extreme winter weather preparedness in local comprehensive emergency manage- ment plans The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 20 of the executive 2 law, as amended by chapter 23 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 a. "disaster" means occurrence or imminent, impending or urgent threat 5 of wide spread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property 6 resulting from any natural or man-made causes, including, but not limit- 7 ed to, fire, flood, earthquake, hurricane, extreme winter weather, 8 tornado, high water, landslide, mudslide, wind, storm, wave action, 9 volcanic activity, epidemic, disease outbreak, air contamination, 10 terrorism, cyber event, blight, drought, infestation, explosion, radio- 11 logical accident, nuclear, chemical, biological, or bacteriological 12 release, water contamination, bridge failure or bridge collapse. 13 § 2. Section 23 of the executive law is amended by adding a new subdi- 14 vision 8 to read as follows: 15 8. Such plans shall additionally include, but not be limited to, the 16 following regarding extreme winter weather: 17 a. evacuation plans and sheltering-in-place plans in the case of 18 extreme winter weather, such plans should include how to deal with tran- 19 sit networks, utilities, and community warming centers; and 20 b. an annual inventory of the municipality's extreme winter weather 21 equipment, such inventory shall include the age and condition of such 22 equipment. 23 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07921-01-3