Prohibits municipal corporations from permitting the use of publicly owned land for helicopter air transportation operated for the primary purpose of conducting sightseeing tours over New York city or conducting photography, videography, or similar production activities over New York city; relates to the use of certain heliports in the city of New York.
Directs the tax levying body of East Ramapo and the East Ramapo Central School District to refund 2024-2025 school taxes collected as a result of an erroneous assertion that the district was facing a severe budget deficit.
Requires the comptroller to maintain a non-aggregated compilation of all print publications, digital platforms, television stations, radio stations, or other media where such advertisements, marketing or informational items were placed on behalf of any state entity.
Extends the moratorium on the issuance of certificates of environmental safety for the siting of facilities and certification of routes for the transportation of liquefied natural or petroleum gas.
Extends the time period from eighteen years to twenty-five years that a school shall be guaranteed recovery of energy performance contract costs from energy savings incurred by school districts over that time period.
Permits New York city voters to sign designating petitions for multiple candidates for the same New York City municipal public office or party position.
Exempts horse-drawn carriages or carts from the ban on night riding if they display at least two lighted lamps on the front of the vehicle, one on each side, having light sources of equal power and visible from the front for a distance of at least three hundred fifty feet; at least one lighted lamp on the rear, located between the center and the left side of the vehicle, which shall display a red or amber fixed or flashing light visible from a distance of at least five hundred feet; and reflective material upon the shafts of the vehicle or other parts thereof which shall normally parallel the body, head or legs of the horse pulling such vehicle.
Creates the office of the correctional ombudsperson to achieve transparency, fairness, impartiality and accountability in New York state correctional facilities; relates to reports by coroners; designates investigators of the office of the correctional ombudsperson as peace officers; authorizes the attorney general to investigate the alleged commission of any criminal offense committed by an employee of the department of corrections and community supervision in connection with their official duties; relates to the confidentiality of certain records; includes the office of the correctional ombudsperson records within the definition of public safety agency records; makes related provisions.
Requires that applications for payment of burial expenses by a local public welfare official or for reimbursement by a local public welfare official for burial expenses paid by relatives or friends of the deceased shall include all necessary consent forms to permit the public welfare official to directly verify the deceased left no funds or insurance sufficient to pay burial expenses and shall be due no earlier than thirty days following the death of the recipient of public assistance or care.
Relates to proceedings involving adolescent offenders and the possession or use of weapons; provides for the access of applicable records; expands the meaning of extraordinary circumstances to include when the defendant is accused of an offense involving the use, possession, or display of a firearm, shotgun, rifle or other deadly weapon.