N.Y. Transportation Law § 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.