S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5410
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 -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
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
commercial vehicles having no more than three axles and ten tires.
Parkway service roads shall be open to mixed traffic. Upon the
completion of a section or sections of expressways including incidental
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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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.