N.Y.
Transportation Law Section 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.
Source:
Section 14-N — Information concerning services for human trafficking victims in commercial service airports and general aviation airports, https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/TRA/14-N (updated Dec. 1, 2023; accessed Apr. 27, 2024).
