New York Laws
Article 26 - Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services
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.