STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2325 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 16, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni- cations AN ACT mandating that the public service commission examine a process for streamlining actions relating to identifying and removing certain utility poles The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public service commission shall initiate a proceeding 2 to examine a process for streamlining actions relating to identifying 3 and removing utility poles that do not have any attachments and are no 4 longer in use. Every pole owner shall submit information related to 5 such poles and other relevant information at the request of the public 6 service commission. On or before September 30, 2026, the public service 7 commission shall issue an order adopting the new or revised rules asso- 8 ciated with the matters examined in the proceeding provided for in this 9 act. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05010-01-5