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Feb 02, 2023 | referred to education |
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Jo Anne Simon
Harvey Epstein
Kenny Burgos
Albert A. Stirpe
A3287 (ACTIVE) - Details
A3287 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Enacts the "schools impacted by gross highways (SIGH) act"; prohibits the commissioner of education from approving the plans for the erection of any new schoolhouse within five hundred feet of a controlled-access highway unless the commissioner of education determines that space limitations are so severe that there is no other site to erect such new schoolhouse.
A3287 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3287 2023-2024 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y February 2, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JOYNER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to enacting the "schools impacted by gross highways (SIGH) act" THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "schools impacted by gross highways (SIGH) act". § 2. Section 408 of the education law is amended by adding a new subdivision 3-a to read as follows: 3-A. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL NOT APPROVE THE PLANS FOR THE ERECTION OF ANY NEW SCHOOLHOUSE WITHIN FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF A CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAY AS DEFINED IN THIS SUBDIVISION UNLESS THE COMMISSIONER DETER- MINES THAT SPACE IS SO LIMITED THAT THERE IS NO OTHER SITE TO ERECT SUCH SCHOOLHOUSE. FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, A "CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAY" SHALL MEAN: (A) A CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAY AS DEFINED BY SECTION ONE HUNDRED NINE OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW UNDER THE JURIS- DICTION OF THE COMMISSIONER OF TRANSPORTATION WHICH HAS BEEN FUNC- TIONALLY CLASSIFIED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AS PRINCIPAL ARTERIAL - INTERSTATE OR PRINCIPAL ARTERIAL - OTHER FREEWAY/EXPRESSWAY ON OFFICIAL FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION MAPS APPROVED BY THE FEDERAL HIGH- WAY ADMINISTRATION PURSUANT TO PART 470.105 OF TITLE 23 OF THE CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS, AS AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME; AND (B) A DIVIDED HIGHWAY UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE NEW YORK STATE THRUWAY AUTHORITY FOR MIXED TRAFFIC WITH ACCESS LIMITED AS THE AUTHORITY MAY DETERMINE AND GENERALLY WITH GRADE SEPARATIONS AT INTERSECTIONS. § 3. Section 2556 of the education law is amended by adding a new subdivision 5-a to read as follows: 5-A. IT SHALL BE UNLAWFUL FOR A NEW SCHOOLHOUSE TO BE CONSTRUCTED IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK WITHIN FIVE HUNDRED FEET OF A CONTROLLED-ACCESS HIGHWAY UNLESS THE CHANCELLOR DETERMINES THAT SPACE IS SO LIMITED THAT EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05407-01-3