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Assembly Bill A7638

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the addition of fog lines on all state highways, roads and other public ways under the jurisdiction of the department of transportation when repaved

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2025-A7638 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4947
Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Transportation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §14, Transp L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A10124, S7469
2023-2024: A354, S4534

2025-A7638 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the addition of fog lines on all state highways and other public ways under the jurisdiction of the department of transportation when such highway or public way is repaved.

2025-A7638 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7638
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in  relation  to  requiring  the
   addition  of  fog  lines  on  all state highways and other public ways
   under the  jurisdiction  of  the  department  of  transportation  when
   repaved

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 16-a to read as follows:
   16-A. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ENSURE THAT FOG LINES ARE  ADDED  TO  ALL
 STATE  HIGHWAYS  AND  OTHER  PUBLIC  WAYS  UNDER THE JURISDICTION OF THE
 DEPARTMENT WHEN SUCH HIGHWAY OR PUBLIC WAY IS REPAVED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
 law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09698-01-5

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