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Assembly Bill A4415A

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the creation of a toll-free hotline and a website where motorists can report potholes

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2021-A4415 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3882
Law Section:
Transportation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §14, Transp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A8878, S6727
2015-2016: A965, S1466
2017-2018: A1992, S5079
2019-2020: A3502, S4189
2023-2024: A3131, S6304, S9497
2025-2026: S3134

2021-A4415 - Summary

Creates a toll-free hotline and a website where motorists can report potholes.

2021-A4415 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4415
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. ABINANTI, WALLACE -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to the creation of a
   toll-free hotline and a website where motorists can report potholes
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 36 to read as follows:
   36.  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  ESTABLISH  A TOLL-FREE TWENTY-FOUR HOUR
 HOTLINE  AND  INTERACTIVE  WEBSITE  BY  WHICH  PERSONS  MAY  REPORT  THE
 LOCATIONS  OF POTHOLES ON THE STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE THRUWAY
 AND RECEIVE, AT SUCH PERSON'S REQUEST, NOTIFICATION WHEN REPAIRS TO  THE
 REPORTED  POTHOLE  HAVE BEEN COMPLETED. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ALSO POST
 THE LOCATIONS OF EACH REPORTED POTHOLE ON SUCH INTERACTIVE WEBSITE UNTIL
 SUCH TIME AS SUCH POTHOLE IS REPAIRED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01672-01-1

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2021-A4415A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3882
Law Section:
Transportation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §14, Transp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A8878, S6727
2015-2016: A965, S1466
2017-2018: A1992, S5079
2019-2020: A3502, S4189
2023-2024: A3131, S6304, S9497
2025-2026: S3134

2021-A4415A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates a toll-free hotline and a website where motorists can report potholes.

2021-A4415A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  4415--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. ABINANTI, WALLACE -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Transportation -- recommitted  to  the  Committee  on
   Transportation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to the creation of a
   toll-free hotline and a website where motorists can report potholes
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 37 to read as follows:
   37. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL  ESTABLISH  A  TOLL-FREE  TWENTY-FOUR  HOUR
 HOTLINE  AND  INTERACTIVE  WEBSITE  BY  WHICH  PERSONS  MAY  REPORT  THE
 LOCATIONS OF POTHOLES ON THE STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM INCLUDING THE  THRUWAY
 AND  RECEIVE, AT SUCH PERSON'S REQUEST, NOTIFICATION WHEN REPAIRS TO THE
 REPORTED POTHOLE HAVE BEEN COMPLETED. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL  ALSO  POST
 THE LOCATIONS OF EACH REPORTED POTHOLE ON SUCH INTERACTIVE WEBSITE UNTIL
 SUCH TIME AS SUCH POTHOLE IS REPAIRED.
   §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
 for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01672-04-2

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