Assembly Bill A5410A

                             
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                                  5410--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 13, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  REILLY, NOVAKHOV, DeSTEFANO -- 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 highway law, in  relation  to  the  creation  of  an
   exception  on  the  Korean war veterans parkway in Richmond county for
   the use of certain commercial vehicles
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  3.4  of section 349-c of the highway law, as
 amended by chapter 453 of the laws  of  2008,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   3.4.  The  state  shall  proceed with the construction of a section or
 sections of [said] SUCH system after designs, plans, specifications  and
 estimates  of  cost thereof have been completed and approved by the city
 and the commissioner of transportation, and the necessary  property  has
 been acquired. The city may, however, elect to construct such section or
 sections  at  its own expense in the manner provided by the city charter
 or otherwise. Upon the completion by the state of a section or  sections
 of  parkways  constructed  by  the  state  in  the city of New York, the
 commissioner of transportation shall by official order  transfer  juris-
 diction over the central express artery and adjacent landscape areas and
 over  adjacent service roads to the city of New York. All such parkways,
 excepting such service roads shall be maintained by the city  department
 of  transportation as parkways restricted to pleasure vehicles and with-
 out access except at designated points, except that the city  department
 of  transportation  may  adopt a rule permitting the use of a portion of
 the Grand Central parkway between the Robert F. Kennedy bridge  and  the
 western  leg of the Brooklyn-Queens expressway AND PERMITTING THE USE OF
 THE KOREAN WAR VETERANS  PARKWAY  IN  RICHMOND  COUNTY  by  single  unit
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 commercial  vehicles having no more than [three] TWO axles and [ten] SIX
 tires.  Parkway service roads shall be open to mixed traffic.  Upon  the
 completion  of a section or sections of expressways including incidental
 service  roads  constructed  by  the  state in the city of New York, the
 commissioner of transportation shall transfer jurisdiction to  the  city
 of  New  York.  The  provisions  of this article in regard to design and
 construction shall apply also to reconstruction of a section or sections
 of the state arterial system.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.