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NY S01028
Bill
Status
1/8/2015
Primary Sponsor
Tony Avella
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AI Summary
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Parks and Recreation Department and relevant agencies must contract with a full-time independent consulting arborist to inspect public trees and tree parts involved in property damage, personal injury, or death within 48 hours
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Consulting arborist must be trained in tree diagnostics, lab sampling, photo documentation, and forensics, and preferably be a Registered Consulting Arborist (RCA) member of the American Society of Consulting Arborists (ASCA)
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Inspection reports documenting tree condition and cause of failure must be made publicly available online within 30 days of the incident
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Trees and tree parts must be preserved at the incident scene whenever possible, with chain of custody established by Parks and Recreation or relevant agency if the consulting arborist cannot access the specimen promptly
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During storms causing large-scale tree losses or failures, every reasonable effort must be made to mark, label, and identify affected trees and tree parts for arborist inspection
Legislative Description
Enacts "Yingyi's law"; requires municipal and government agencies, and individual members of the public to abstain from disposing and destroying of public trees, tree parts that are involved in property damage, personal injury or death to persons from trees growing within and across the public-right-of-ways, including parks and street trees; provides that trees and/or tree parts shall be inspected, analyzed and diagnosed for defects, disease and determine presumed/opinion as to the cause of failure by a full-time independent consulting arborist (CA) trained and skilled in tree diagnostic practices, lab sampling, photo documentation, forensics and legally binding report writing.
Last Action
REFERRED TO CITIES
1/6/2016