Relates to requiring the display of a notice of responsibilities to protect underground facilities, the official text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   6768
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 13, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BRAUNSTEIN  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 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:
 
   Section  1.  Section  119-b  of  the  public service law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
   9. ANY ENTITY WHICH LEASES EXCAVATION EQUIPMENT TO  THE  PUBLIC  SHALL
 PROVIDE  A  NOTICE  TO LESSEES OF SUCH EXCAVATION EQUIPMENT THAT INFORMS
 SUCH LESSEES ABOUT THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES UNDER  STATE  LAW  TO  PROTECT
 UNDERGROUND FACILITIES AND THE EXISTENCE, OPERATION, PROGRAMS, AND TELE-
 PHONE NUMBER OF THE ONE-CALL NOTIFICATION SYSTEM.
   §  2.  Subdivision  2  of  section  761 of the general business law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph h to read as follows:
   H. PROVIDE ANY ENTITY WHICH LEASES EXCAVATION EQUIPMENT TO THE  PUBLIC
 WITH  THE  TELEPHONE  NUMBER  OF THE SYSTEM AND A SAMPLE OR MODEL NOTICE
 INFORMING LESSEES OF  EXCAVATION  EQUIPMENT  OF  THE  SYSTEM  AND  THEIR
 RESPONSIBILITIES  RELATING  TO THE PROTECTION OF UNDERGROUND FACILITIES;
 COOPERATE WITH ENTITIES THAT LEASE  EXCAVATION  EQUIPMENT  TO  ENCOURAGE
 THEIR  PARTICIPATION  IN  THE  SYSTEM  TO ENSURE THAT WHEN LESSEES LEASE
 EXCAVATION EQUIPMENT, SUCH LESSEES RECEIVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE  SYSTEM
 AND ABOUT THEIR OBLIGATION TO PROTECT UNDERGROUND FACILITIES.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 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