New York Senate Bill S05509 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5509 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 24, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Energy and Telecommuni- cations AN ACT to amend the public service law and the general business law, in relation to requiring the display of a notice of responsibilities to protect underground facilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 119-b of the public service law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows: 3 9. Any entity which leases excavation equipment to the public shall 4 provide a notice to lessees of such excavation equipment that informs 5 such lessees about their responsibilities under state law to protect 6 underground facilities and the existence, operation, programs, and tele- 7 phone number of the one-call notification system. 8 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 761 of the general business law is 9 amended by adding a new paragraph h to read as follows: 10 h. Provide any entity which leases excavation equipment to the public 11 with the telephone number of the system and a sample or model notice 12 informing lessees of excavation equipment of the system and their 13 responsibilities relating to the protection of underground facilities; 14 cooperate with entities that lease excavation equipment to encourage 15 their participation in the system to ensure that when lessees lease 16 excavation equipment, such lessees receive information about the system 17 and about their obligation to protect underground facilities. 18 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 19 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06652-01-5