A 8122: Requires the state commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to create a process to approve or deny any new large urban telecommunication infrastructure that is proposed to be located within two hundred feet of any site listed on the State Register or the National Register or eligible to be listed on the National Register.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8122 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY May 1, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Tourism, Parks, Arts and Sports Development AN ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law, in relation to directing the state commissioner of parks, recreation and historic preservation to create a process to approve or deny certain new large urban telecommunication infrastructure The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The parks, recreation and historic preservation law is 2 amended by adding a new section 14.13 to read as follows: 3 § 14.13 New York state historic district telecommunications. 1. As 4 used in this section, "large urban telecommunication infrastructure" 5 means free-standing street or sidewalk public telecommunication infras- 6 tructure greater than eight feet in height. 7 2. The commissioner shall create a process to approve or deny any new 8 large urban telecommunication infrastructure that is proposed to be 9 located within two hundred feet of any site listed on the state register 10 or the national register or eligible to be listed on the national regis- 11 ter; provided, however, that such process shall not include any measures 12 preempted by section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 13 1966. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03118-03-5