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Senate Bill S6520

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Authorizes towns to repair state roads and provides for the state to pay towns for such repairs

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2019-S6520 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Highway Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §12, Hway L

2019-S6520 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2019-S6520 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6520 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6520
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               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:

   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 12 of the highway law, as  amended
 by section 3 of part B of chapter 494 of the laws of 2009, is amended to
 read as follows:
   1.  (A) The maintenance and repair of improved state highways in towns
 and incorporated villages, exclusive, however, of the cost of  maintain-
 ing  and  repairing bridges having a span in excess of twenty feet shall
 be under the direct supervision and control of the commissioner  and  he
 or  she  shall be responsible therefor. The cost of such maintenance and
 repair shall be borne wholly by the state and be paid from moneys appro-
 priated therefor by the legislature. Such maintenance and repair may  be
 done  in  the  discretion  of  the  commissioner  either directly by the
 department or by contract awarded to the lowest responsible bidder at  a
 public  letting  after due advertisement, and under such rules and regu-
 lations as the commissioner may prescribe. The commissioner  shall  also
 have  the  power to adopt such system as may seem expedient so that each
 section  of  such  highways  shall  be  effectively   and   economically
 preserved, maintained and repaired.
   (B)  NOTWITHSTANDING  THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH (A) OF THIS SUBDIVI-
 SION OR ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, A TOWN, ACTING BY  AND  THROUGH  ITS
 LEGISLATIVE  BODY,  MAY,  UPON  NOTICE TO THE COMMISSIONER, REPAIR STATE
 ROADS LYING WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF SUCH TOWN. THE STATE SHALL  PAY  TO
 SUCH  TOWN,  NOT  LESS  THAN  TWICE  ANNUALLY,  THE  TOTAL SUM OF MONEYS
 EXPENDED BY SUCH TOWN FOR THE REPAIR OF SUCH STATE  ROADS.  THE  COMMIS-
 SIONER  IS  AUTHORIZED TO PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS NECESSARY FOR
 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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