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Jan 04, 2012 |
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Apr 15, 2011 |
referred to transportation |
Senate Bill S4715
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2011-S4715 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Transportation
- Law Section:
- Highway Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง10-c, Hway L
2011-S4715 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S4715 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the highway law, in relation to the threshold amount of requiring a project to be subject to competitive bidding PURPOSE: To allow municipalities the flexibility to waive taxes levied on the property of a neighboring municipal electric company. SUMMARY: Section 1 amends Paragraph (e) of Subdivision 4 of Chapter 10-C of the Highway law to increase the dollar amount for which competitive bidding is required for annual local assistance allocations. Section 2 provides this act shall take effect immediately. JUSTIFICATION: Regular incremental raises in the competitive bidding threshold for highway projects are necessary to compensate for increases in inflation as well as material, transportation, labor and other costs. By current law, the local assistance funds allocated for local street or highway projects under this subdivision in the Highway Law are used to undertake work on projects either with the municipality's own
2011-S4715 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4715 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E April 15, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to the threshold amount of requiring a project to be subject to competitive bidding THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 4 of section 10-c of the high- way law, as amended by chapter 413 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read as follows: (e) Funds allocated for local street or highway projects under this subdivision shall be used to undertake work on a project either with the municipality's own forces or by contract, provided however, that whenev- er the estimate for the construction contract work exceeds [one] TWO hundred FIFTY thousand dollars such work must be performed by contract let by competitive bid in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred three of the general municipal law. S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10275-01-1
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