N.Y. Executive Law § 711-a: Analyze and report on the feasibility of implementing tornado warning systems

§ 711-a. Analyze and report on the feasibility of implementing tornado

warning systems. 1. The division shall analyze and report on the

feasibility of implementing tornado warning systems, including the

installation of tornado sirens in municipalities across the state. Such

examination shall include determining whether certain municipalities

should install tornado sirens, the potential placement of tornado sirens

and whether they should be located near schools, hospitals, sports

facilities, colleges or other populated areas.

2. The division shall analyze and report on the use of firehouse

sirens as possible notification to the surrounding community of an

impending tornado and the type of public education necessary to carry

out such program.

3. The division shall also recommend other technologies to be used to

issue tornado warnings such as text messages to cell phones and the

systems necessary to carry out an emergency text message system.

4. The recommendations required pursuant to this section shall include

a cost-benefit analysis of implementing a tornado warning system and

possible funding mechanisms for the implementation of a tornado warning

system.

5. The division shall issue the report to the governor and the

legislature on or before March first, two thousand fourteen.