Bill Text: NY A04415 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates a toll-free hotline and a website where motorists can report potholes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-23 - ordered to third reading rules cal.297 [A04415 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04415-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4415

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 4, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. ABINANTI, WALLACE -- 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 36 to read as follows:
     3    36.  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 one hundred twentieth day after
    11  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    12  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    13  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    14  completed on or before such effective date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01672-01-1