Senate Bill S4846

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Authorizes county highway superintendents to rent road machinery from any city, town or village

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S4846 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7133
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Highway Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§117, 142-c, 142-d & 142-b, Hway L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A7834
2011-2012: A5824
2013-2014: A1623
2015-2016: A1035
2017-2018: A542
2019-2020: A3691
2023-2024: S4133

2021-S4846 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes county highway superintendents to rent road machinery from any city, town or village.

2021-S4846 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4846 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4846
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 16, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. REICHLIN-MELNICK -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to authorizing county high-
   way superintendents to rent road machinery  from  any  city,  town  or
   village,  and  the  authority  of  the  town highway superintendent to
   contract  with  another  municipality,  district  corporation,  school
   district,  community  college  or  any unit of the state university to
   provide certain services and the use  of  town  machinery,  tools  and
   equipment
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 117 of the highway law, as amended by  chapter  542
 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
   §  117.  Construction and reconstruction of county roads. Construction
 or reconstruction of such roads, including necessary grade  and  culvert
 work,  and  any  plans  and specifications therefor, shall conform to an
 outline or general plan of the work, and  such  construction  or  recon-
 struction  must  be  done  under the immediate direct supervision of the
 county superintendent or a competent foreman designated by him  OR  HER.
 All  or  any  part of such construction or reconstruction may be done by
 contract or by direct employment of labor and purchase of  material,  or
 both.  The  machinery  needed  for  work done under this article, unless
 furnished by the contractor, shall be provided as follows:
   The county superintendent may rent road  machinery  from  any  person,
 company,  corporation,  or from any CITY, town or towns [in the county],
 VILLAGE, or from any other county, and such rental shall be payable from
 the county road fund; or he OR SHE  may  use  road  building  machinery,
 equipment,  tools and implements purchased with county moneys, and when-
 ever used for the purpose of this article, a  charge  therefor,  in  the
 nature of rental, shall be payable from the county road fund on itemized
 vouchers  certified  by  the  county  superintendent  showing  where the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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