Bill Text: NY S06520 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes towns to repair state roads and provides for the state to pay towns for such repairs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S06520 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06520-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6520

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 14, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation  to  authorizing  towns  to
          repair state roads

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 12 of the highway law, as  amended
     2  by section 3 of part B of chapter 494 of the laws of 2009, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    1.  (a) The maintenance and repair of improved state highways in towns
     5  and incorporated villages, exclusive, however, of the cost of  maintain-
     6  ing  and  repairing bridges having a span in excess of twenty feet shall
     7  be under the direct supervision and control of the commissioner  and  he
     8  or  she  shall be responsible therefor. The cost of such maintenance and
     9  repair shall be borne wholly by the state and be paid from moneys appro-
    10  priated therefor by the legislature. Such maintenance and repair may  be
    11  done  in  the  discretion  of  the  commissioner  either directly by the
    12  department or by contract awarded to the lowest responsible bidder at  a
    13  public  letting  after due advertisement, and under such rules and regu-
    14  lations as the commissioner may prescribe. The commissioner  shall  also
    15  have  the  power to adopt such system as may seem expedient so that each
    16  section  of  such  highways  shall  be  effectively   and   economically
    17  preserved, maintained and repaired.
    18    (b)  Notwithstanding  the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivi-
    19  sion or any other provision of law, a town, acting by  and  through  its
    20  legislative  body,  may,  upon  notice to the commissioner, repair state
    21  roads lying within the boundaries of such town. The state shall  pay  to
    22  such  town,  not  less  than  twice  annually,  the  total sum of moneys
    23  expended by such town for the repair of such state  roads.  The  commis-
    24  sioner  is  authorized to promulgate rules and regulations necessary for
    25  the implementation of this paragraph.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 6520                             2

     1    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     2  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
     3  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
     4  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
     5  completed on or before such date.