New York Assembly Bill A00480 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 480 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, BURDICK, KELLES, LUPARDO, BUTTENSCHON, GLICK, JACOBSON, ANGELINO, GALLAHAN, TAGUE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to the department of trans- portation not requiring surveying in certain situations The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 10 of the highway law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 24-e to read as follows: 3 24-e. The commissioner shall not require a survey as part of an agree- 4 ment with any fiber optic utility for use and occupancy of a state right 5 of way for the purposes of installing, modifying, relocating, repairing, 6 operating, or maintaining fiber optic facilities as part of the depart- 7 ment's consolidated application, when such use and occupancy of the 8 state right of way is utilizing existing infrastructure, including but 9 not limited to aerial pole attachments and underground conduits. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02380-01-5