Bill Text: NY A03131 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the department of transportation to maintain a website or webpage where users may report defects on state highways and bridges.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 29-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-05-30 - print number 3131a [A03131 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03131-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3131

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 2, 2023
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        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 creation of a
          toll-free hotline and a website where motorists can report potholes

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 37 to read as follows:
     3    37.  The  commissioner  shall  establish  a toll-free twenty-four hour
     4  hotline  and  interactive  website  by  which  persons  may  report  the
     5  locations  of potholes on the state highway system including the thruway
     6  and receive, at such person's request, notification when repairs to  the
     7  reported  pothole  have been completed. The commissioner shall also post
     8  the locations of each reported pothole on such interactive website until
     9  such time as such pothole is repaired.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
    11  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
    12  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
    13  for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
    14  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05971-01-3