Senate Bill S6732A

                             
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                                  6732--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 21, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sens.  MAY,  HELMING,  C. RYAN -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
   portation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accord-
   ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN  ACT  to  amend  the highway law, in relation to the rate paid by the
   state to a city for maintenance and repair of highways
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The opening paragraph of subdivision 5-a of section 340-b
 of the highway law, as amended by chapter 30 of the  laws  of  1987,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   The  commissioner  of  transportation and the city of New York, acting
 through the mayor or other administrative head thereof,  pursuant  to  a
 resolution  of  the governing body of such city, are authorized to enter
 into a written agreement for  the  maintenance  and  repair,  under  the
 supervision and subject to the approval of the commissioner of transpor-
 tation, of any state interstate highway or portion thereof, exclusive of
 service  roads  and  pavement  on  intersecting street bridges, which is
 within the boundaries of such city and which is now or which shall here-
 after be designated in section three hundred forty-a of  this  [chapter]
 ARTICLE  and  which  has  been  constructed  or  which  shall  have been
 constructed as authorized by  section  three  hundred  forty-a  of  this
 [chapter]  ARTICLE.  Such agreement may provide that the state shall pay
 annually to such city a sum to be computed at the rate of (a)  not  more
 than  [eighty-five]  TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY-FOUR cents per square yard of
 the pavement area that is included in the state highway system according
 to the provisions of this section, and (b) an  additional  [ten]  TWENTY
 cents  per square yard of such pavement area where such pavement area is
 located on any elevated bridge, SUCH RATE SHALL  BE  INCREASED  IN  EACH
 YEAR  OF  THE  AGREEMENT  BY THE PERCENTAGE CHANGE IN THE CONSUMER PRICE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 INDEX FOR ALL URBAN CONSUMERS (CPI-U), NEW YORK-NORTHERN NEW JERSEY-LONG
 ISLAND, NY-NJ-CT-PA, AS PUBLISHED BY THE  UNITED  STATES  DEPARTMENT  OF
 LABOR BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, OVER THE PRIOR FIVE YEARS.
   §  2.  The  opening paragraph of subdivision 7 of section 349-c of the
 highway law, as amended by chapter 30 of the laws of 1987, is amended to
 read as follows:
   The commissioner of transportation and any city named in this article,
 acting through the mayor or other administrative head thereof,  pursuant
 to  a  resolution  of the governing body of such city except the city of
 New York, are authorized to enter into a written agreement for the main-
 tenance and repair, under the supervision and subject to the approval of
 the commissioner, of any public street, main route  or  thoroughfare  or
 portion thereof, exclusive of service roads and pavement on intersecting
 street bridges, which is within the boundaries of such city and which is
 now or which shall hereafter be designated in this article and which has
 been  constructed  or which shall have been constructed as authorized by
 [articles] THIS ARTICLE AND ARTICLE four [and twelve-B] of this  chapter
 and with grants made available by the federal government pursuant to the
 federal aid highway act of nineteen hundred forty-four, being public law
 five  hundred  twenty-one  of  the  seventy-eighth congress, chapter six
 hundred twenty-six, second session, as approved on the twentieth day  of
 December,  nineteen  hundred forty-four. Such agreement may provide that
 the state shall pay annually to such city a sum to be  computed  at  the
 rate of (a) not more than [eighty-five] TWO DOLLARS AND FIFTY-FOUR cents
 per square yard of the pavement area that is included in the state high-
 way system according to the provisions of this section, and (b) an addi-
 tional  [ten]  TWENTY  cents per square yard of such pavement area where
 such pavement area is located on any elevated bridge, SUCH RATE SHALL BE
 INCREASED IN EACH YEAR OF THE AGREEMENT BY THE PERCENTAGE CHANGE IN  THE
 CONSUMER  PRICE INDEX FOR ALL URBAN CONSUMERS (CPI-U), NEW YORK-NORTHERN
 NEW JERSEY-LONG ISLAND, NY-NJ-CT-PA, AS PUBLISHED BY THE  UNITED  STATES
 DEPARTMENT  OF  LABOR  BUREAU  OF  LABOR STATISTICS, OVER THE PRIOR FIVE
 YEARS.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.