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Assembly Bill A9564

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the storage of road salt

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2025-A9564 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9923
Law Section:
Transportation Law
Laws Affected:
Add §23, Transp L

2025-A9564 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the department of transportation and every municipality, locality and public authority that distributes road salt to construct a salt shed within ten years.

2025-A9564 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9564
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 14, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to  the  storage  of
   road salt
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The transportation law is amended by adding a  new  section
 23 to read as follows:
   §  23.  STORAGE  OF ROAD SALT. 1. FOR THE PROTECTION OF ROAD SALT, THE
 DEPARTMENT AND EVERY MUNICIPALITY, LOCALITY, AND AUTHORITY THAT DISTRIB-
 UTES ROAD SALT SHALL CONSTRUCT A SALT  SHED  WITHIN  TEN  YEARS  OF  THE
 EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION.
   2. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM "ROAD SALT" SHALL MEAN A
 MINERAL  FORM OF SODIUM CHLORIDE TO MELT SNOW AND ICE ON ROADS BY LOWER-
 ING WATER'S FREEZING POINT.
   3. SALT SHEDS SHOULD MAINTAIN A REASONABLE  SEPARATION  FROM  STREAMS,
 LAKES, PONDS, PRIVATE AND PUBLIC POTABLE WATER WELLS, GROUNDWATER SOURC-
 ES  USED  FOR PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS, SURFACE WATERS OF THE STATE, PRIMARY
 WATER SUPPLIES AND PRINCIPAL/SOLE SOURCE AQUIFERS.
   4. SALT SHEDS SHALL BE USED YEAR-ROUND TO PREVENT  PRECIPITATION  FROM
 MERGING WITH STORED SALT OR SALT AND SAND MIXTURE.
   5.  SALT  STORAGE SHED BASES AND THEIR COVERS, IF APPLICABLE, SHALL BE
 IMPERMEABLE. COVERS SHALL BE SECURED AGAINST THE WIND, ALWAYS REMAIN  ON
 THE  PILE  AND BE OF SUFFICIENT SIZE TO ENCLOSE THE ENTIRE PILE AND ONLY
 BE OPENED TO THE LEAST NEEDED DIMENSIONS NECESSARY FOR TRANSFER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13871-02-5

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