2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2 - Powers, Duties and Jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation › 14-N - Information Concerning Services for Human Trafficking Victims in Commercial Service Airports and General Aviation Airports.

§  14-n. Information concerning services for human trafficking victims
in commercial service airports and general aviation airports.    1.  The
operator  of  a commercial service airport and the operator of a general
aviation airport shall make available in the public restrooms and in any
lactation rooms, in plain view and in a conspicuous  place  and  manner,
informational cards and/or signs developed by:
(a)  the office of temporary and disability assistance in consultation
with the New York state interagency task force on human trafficking; or
(b) the United States Department of Homeland Security.
2.  All  such  informational  cards  and  signs  shall  only   contain
information  concerning services for human trafficking victims and shall
prominently include the national  human  trafficking  hotline  telephone
number.
3.  The  provisions  of  this  section  shall not apply to any airport
operated by a bi-state authority.
4. For the purposes of this section, the following  terms  shall  have
the following meanings:
(a)  "airport" shall mean an area of land or water used or intended to
be used for the landing and taking off of aircraft, an appurtenant  area
used  or  intended  to  be  used  for airport buildings or other airport
facilities or rights  of  way,  and  airport  buildings  and  facilities
located in any of those areas. Such term shall include heliports;
(b)  "commercial  service  airport"  shall  mean a public airport or a
public-use airport in the state that, as determined by the United States
secretary of transportation, has at least twenty-five hundred  passenger
boardings  each  year  and  is  receiving  scheduled  passenger aircraft
service;
(c) "general aviation airport"  shall  mean  a  public  airport  or  a
public-use  airport  with  passenger  boardings  in  the  state that, as
determined by the United States secretary of transportation, either: (i)
does not have scheduled service; or (ii) has scheduled service with less
than twenty-five hundred passenger boardings each year;
(d) "lactation room"  shall  mean  a  hygienic  place,  other  than  a
restroom,  that  is:  (i)  shielded from view; (ii) free from intrusion;
(iii) contains a chair, a working  surface,  and,  if  the  building  is
otherwise  supplied  with  electricity,  an  electrical outlet; and (iv)
intended to  be  used  for  the  primary  purpose  of  breastfeeding  or
expressing breast milk;
(e)  "passenger  boardings"  shall mean revenue passenger boardings in
the prior calendar year on an aircraft in service in  air  commerce,  as
the  United  States  secretary  of  transportation determines, including
passengers who continue on an  aircraft  in  international  flight  that
stops at an airport in the state for a nontraffic purpose;
(f)  "public airport" means an airport used or intended to be used for
public purposes: (i) that is under the control of the state,  a  county,
city,  town, or village or a state or local authority; and (ii) of which
the area used or intended to be used for the  landing,  taking  off,  or
surface  maneuvering  of  aircraft is publicly owned. Provided, however,
such  term  shall  not  include  any  airport  operated  by  a  bi-state
authority; and
(g)  "public-use  airport"  shall mean an airport available for use by
the general public without a requirement for the prior approval  of  the
owner  or  operator  thereof except as may be required by federal law or
regulation.