A 125: Creates the blue light emergency phones pilot program in all five boroughs; directs the commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to study and report upon the use of such program.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 125 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EICHENSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Cities AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to creating the blue light emergency phones pilot program and to direct the commissioner of parks and recreation to study and report upon the use of such program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended 2 by adding a new section 18-165 to read as follows: 3 § 18-165 Blue light emergency phones pilot program. In one park, oper- 4 ated by or under the jurisdiction of the department, in each of the five 5 boroughs, the department shall implement a blue light emergency phones 6 pilot program for the purpose of public safety. Under such program, the 7 department shall install blue lighted emergency phones that, when used, 8 shall automatically dial 9-1-1 and ring directly to the police depart- 9 ment. 10 § 2. The commissioner of parks and recreation shall cause a study to 11 be performed to analyze how the implementation of blue light emergency 12 phones pilot program in parks impacts public safety compared to parks 13 without such a program. 14 § 3. On or before three hundred sixty-five days after all five 15 locations identified for the blue light emergency phones pilot program 16 have become operational, the commissioner of parks and recreation shall 17 complete the study conducted pursuant to section two of this act and 18 shall thereafter deliver a copy of the findings of the study and any 19 legislative recommendations deemed to be necessary to the governor, the 20 temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and the 21 mayor of the city of New York. 22 § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 23 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00540-01-5