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Assembly Bill A4540A

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the removal of weight and height restrictions on vehicles traveling from the Ogdensburg bridge south to the Port of Ogdensburg

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2021-A4540 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §385, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A7075
2023-2024: A5138
2025-2026: A1307

2021-A4540 - Summary

Removes the weight and height restrictions on vehicles traveling south on the route from the Ogdensburg bridge to the Port of Ogdensburg.

2021-A4540 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4540
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WALCZYK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  the  allow-
   able  dimensions  and  weights  of  vehicles traveling on highways and
   bridges
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  16 of section 385 of the vehicle and traffic
 law is amended by adding a new paragraph (jj) to read as follows:
   (JJ) OVER A ROUTE EXTENDING FROM THE OGDENSBURG PRESCOTT INTERNATIONAL
 BRIDGE, PROCEEDING SOUTH TO NEW YORK STATE ROUTE 37, AND THEN  SOUTHWEST
 ALONG  ROUTE  37,  CONTINUING NORTHWEST ALONG FORD STREET EXTENSION/FORD
 STREET, TO THE PORT OF  OGDENSBURG,  A  DISTANCE  OF  APPROXIMATELY  1.7
 MILES.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05067-01-1

2021-A4540A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §385, V & T L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A7075
2023-2024: A5138
2025-2026: A1307

2021-A4540A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Removes the weight and height restrictions on vehicles traveling south on the route from the Ogdensburg bridge to the Port of Ogdensburg.

2021-A4540A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  4540--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WALCZYK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee  on  Transporta-
   tion  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 vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  the  allow-
   able  dimensions and weights of vehicles traveling on certain highways
   and bridges
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  385 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 15-b to read as follows:
   15-B.  IN FURTHERANCE OF THE AUTHORITY TO ISSUE  PERMITS  PURSUANT  TO
 SUBDIVISION  FIFTEEN  OF  THIS SECTION, THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
 AND THE NEW YORK STATE THRUWAY AUTHORITY ARE AUTHORIZED TO ENTER INTO  A
 COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT RELATIVE TO PERMITS TO OPERATE OR MOVE VEHICLES OR
 COMBINATIONS  OF  VEHICLES THE WEIGHTS OR THE DIMENSIONS OF WHICH EXCEED
 THE LIMITATIONS OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR IN THIS SECTION ALONG THE THRUWAY
 SYSTEM AND STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM, A ROUTE EXTENDING FROM  THE  OGDENSBURG
 PRESCOTT  INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE, PROCEEDING SOUTH TO NEW YORK STATE ROUTE
 37, AND THEN SOUTHWEST ALONG ROUTE 37, CONTINUING NORTHWEST  ALONG  FORD
 STREET  EXTENSION/FORD  STREET, TO THE PORT OF OGDENSBURG, A DISTANCE OF
 APPROXIMATELY 1.7 MILES.  PERMITS ISSUED HEREUNDER MAY BE OF A JOINT  OR
 RECIPROCAL  TYPE FOR OPERATIONS OR MOVEMENTS ON SUCH HIGHWAY SYSTEMS AND
 SHALL NOT BE LIMITED TO LOADS PROPOSED AS ONE PIECE OR ITEM OR OTHERWISE
 CANNOT BE SEPARATED INTO UNITS OF LESS WEIGHT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05067-02-2

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