A 447: Requires telecommunications system contracts provide for emergency 911 in municipal land lease agreements.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 447 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Local Governments AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to certain requirements for telecommunications system contracts The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new 2 section 109-e to read as follows: 3 § 109-e. Telecommunications system requirements. 1. For the purposes 4 of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 5 (a) "Coverage" shall mean that there are no dropped calls due to lack 6 of cellular service or there are no areas where cellular service is 7 compromised and/or unavailable. 8 (b) "Telecommunications system" shall mean all facilities owned, oper- 9 ated or used by a telecommunications systems company to provide services 10 located within the boundaries of the state, authority or municipality. 11 (c) "Voice service" shall mean any service that is interconnected with 12 the public switched telephone network and that furnishes voice communi- 13 cations to an end user using resources from the North American Numbering 14 Plan or any successor to the North American Numbering Plan adopted by 15 the public service commission under section 251(e)(1) of the Communi- 16 cations Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 251(e)(1)); and includes: 17 (i) transmissions from a telephone facsimile machine, computer, or 18 other device to a telephone facsimile machine; and 19 (ii) without limitation, any service that enables real-time, two-way 20 voice communications, including any service that requires internet 21 protocol-compatible customer premises equipment and permits out-bound 22 calling, whether or not the service is one-way or two-way voice over 23 internet protocol. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00417-01-5 
 A. 447 2 1 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, where a 2 land lease agreement between a telecommunications systems company and 3 municipality provides for the operation of a telecommunications system, 4 such telecommunications systems company's voice service shall provide 5 coverage of emergency 911. 6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 7 have become a law.