S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7993
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 16, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. KASSAY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT requiring the authorities budget office to conduct a study on the
financial effects of making local governments responsible for upkeep
in public areas immediately outside of properties owned or leased by
public authorities; and providing for the repeal of such provisions
upon expiration thereof
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The director of the authorities budget office shall conduct
a comprehensive study analyzing the financial impact on local govern-
ments being responsible for the upkeep in public areas immediately
outside of properties owned or leased by public authorities, including
but not limited to, sidewalks.
§ 2. For the purposes of this act, the director of the authorities
budget office may conduct such study in conjunction with any other
department, division, board, bureau, commission, agency, public authori-
ty, local government or municipality of the state deemed necessary. To
the maximum extent feasible, such director shall be authorized to
request, receive, and utilize such resources and data of any other
department, division, board, bureau, commission, agency, public authori-
ty, local government or municipality of the state as such director may
reasonably request to properly carry their powers and duties pursuant to
this act.
§ 3. The director of the authorities budget office shall publish such
report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the
speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate committee on labor and
the chair of the assembly committee on labor no later than December 31,
2025.
§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
deemed repealed January 1, 2026.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09378-01-5
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