Senate Bill S2857

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S2857

SPONSOR: FLANAGAN
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the highway law, in relation to the limitation on
certain highway expenses in the town of Smithtown, Suffolk county

 
PURPOSE:

To increase the amount that the Town of Smithtown may spend for the
purchase of stone crushers, power rollers, motor trucks, scarifiers,
concrete mixers, traction engines or road machines for grading and
scraping equipment, tools and other implements.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

This bill amends the subparagraph 1-e of paragraph a of subdivision 3 of
271 of the Highway Law to increase the amount that the Town of Smithtown
may spend for the purchase of stone crushers, power rollers, motor
trucks, scarifiers, concrete mixers, traction engines or road machines
              

for grading and scraping, equipment, tools and other implements.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The Town of Smithtown has a population of approximately 116,000 people
and has grown by approximately 3,000 in the past decade. The Town's
Highway Department services over 470 miles of road. Due to the miles of
roadway and the volume of traffic these roads endure each year, as well
as the fact that more than one-half of the Highway Department's fleet is
over fifteen years old and the fact that the cost of equipment has
increased by approximately fifty percent within the past decade, the
$800,000 limit is completely inadequate to meet the needs of the resi-
dents. In order to meet such needs, an increase in the authorized spend-
ing limit is required.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2009: Transportation Cmte.
2010: S.5692 Passed Senate
2011-12: S.4686 Passed Senate
2013-14: Passed Senate
2015-16: Passed Senate
2017-18: Passed Senate

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to the state.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.