S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7901
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 28, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to increasing reimbursement
rates paid by the state to cities for repair and maintenance of state
arterials
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 5-a of section 340-b
of the highway law, as amended by chapter 30 of the laws of 1987, is
amended to read as follows:
The commissioner of transportation and the city of New York, acting
through the mayor or other administrative head thereof, pursuant to a
resolution of the governing body of such city, are authorized to enter
into a written agreement for the maintenance and repair, under the
supervision and subject to the approval of the commissioner of transpor-
tation, of any state interstate highway or portion thereof, exclusive of
service roads and pavement on intersecting street bridges, which is
within the boundaries of such city and which is now or which shall here-
after be designated in section three hundred forty-a of this [chapter]
ARTICLE and which has been constructed or which shall have been
constructed as authorized by section three hundred forty-a of this
[chapter] ARTICLE. Such agreement may provide that the state shall pay
annually to such city a sum to be computed at the rate of (a) not more
than [eighty-five] ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY-FIVE cents per square yard of
the pavement area that is included in the state highway system according
to the provisions of this section, and (b) an additional [ten] FIFTEEN
cents per square yard of such pavement area where such pavement area is
located on any elevated bridge.
S 2. The opening paragraph of subdivision 7 of section 349-c of the
highway law, as amended by chapter 30 of the laws of 1987, is amended to
read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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The commissioner of transportation and any city named in this article,
acting through the mayor or other administrative head thereof, pursuant
to a resolution of the governing body of such city except the city of
New York, are authorized to enter into a written agreement for the main-
tenance and repair, under the supervision and subject to the approval of
the commissioner, of any public street, main route or thoroughfare or
portion thereof, exclusive of service roads and pavement on intersecting
street bridges, which is within the boundaries of such city and which is
now or which shall hereafter be designated in this article and which has
been constructed or which shall have been constructed as authorized by
[articles] THIS ARTICLE AND ARTICLE four [and twelve-B] of this chapter
and with grants made available by the federal government pursuant to the
federal aid highway act of nineteen hundred forty-four, being public law
five hundred twenty-one of the seventy-eighth congress, chapter six
hundred twenty-six, second session, as approved on the twentieth day of
December, nineteen hundred forty-four. Such agreement may provide that
the state shall pay annually to such city a sum to be computed at the
rate of (a) not more than [eighty-five] ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY-FIVE cents
per square yard of the pavement area that is included in the state high-
way system according to the provisions of this section, and (b) an addi-
tional [ten] FIFTEEN cents per square yard of such pavement area where
such pavement area is located on any elevated bridge.
S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
the date on which it shall have become a law.