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NY S01363
Bill
Status
1/9/2017
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 trees and tree parts involved in property damage, personal injury, or death within 48 hours.
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Consulting arborist must be a member of the American Society of Consulting Arborists (ASCA) and preferably hold Registered Consulting Arborist (RCA) credentials, with expertise in tree diagnostics, lab sampling, photo documentation, and forensics.
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Inspection results and arborist reports must be made publicly available online within 30 days of the incident on a city-maintained website.
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Every reasonable effort must be made to preserve tree specimens at the incident scene, with chain of custody procedures established by Parks and Recreation or relevant agencies if specimens are moved.
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City shall maintain a list of approved consulting arborists through a request for proposals process, with designated representatives from individual agencies responsible for contacting approved arborists.
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
1/3/2018