Bill Text: NY A04588 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Renames the Governor Mario M. Cuomo bridge the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Tappan Zee bridge; directs the commissioner of transportation to provide for the installation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state highway system.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 28-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A04588 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04588-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4588

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. MCGOWAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, the environmental  conserva-
          tion  law  and  the  highway law, in relation to renaming the Governor
          Mario M.  Cuomo bridge the Tappan Zee bridge

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 356 of the public authorities law,
     2  as  amended by section 6 of part M of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    2. The Hudson section. Beginning at the northerly end of the  southern
     5  Westchester  connection  at  or  near Tuckahoe road, thence in a general
     6  northerly and westerly direction crossing the Hudson river  at  a  point
     7  south of Highland Falls, which crossing shall be known as "The [Governor
     8  Mario  M.  Cuomo]  Tappan  Zee  Bridge",  including a highway connection
     9  between "The [Governor Mario M. Cuomo] Tappan Zee Bridge"  and  the  New
    10  England  section  of the thruway presently known as interstate route two
    11  hundred eighty-seven, thence in a general westerly direction  to  inter-
    12  sect  with  existing route number seventeen or to a connection with that
    13  route, including a thruway connection from that portion of  the  section
    14  west  of  the  Hudson river, generally southerly to a point to be deter-
    15  mined by the authority on the New York-New Jersey boundary line.
    16    § 2. Section 13-0103 of the environmental conservation law, as amended
    17  by section 7 of part M of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017, is amended  to
    18  read as follows:
    19  § 13-0103. Marine and coastal district described.
    20    The marine and coastal district shall include the waters of the Atlan-
    21  tic  Ocean within three nautical miles from the coast line and all other
    22  tidal waters within the state, including the  Hudson  River  up  to  the
    23  [Governor Mario M. Cuomo] Tappan Zee bridge.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    §  3.  Subdivision 1 of section 13-0307 of the environmental conserva-
     2  tion law, as amended by section 8 of part M of chapter 61 of the laws of
     3  2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    1. The department periodically shall examine all shellfish lands with-
     5  in  the marine district and the Hudson River between the [Governor Mario
     6  M.  Cuomo] Tappan Zee bridge and the federal dam at  Troy  to  ascertain
     7  the sanitary condition thereof in accordance with regulations promulgat-
     8  ed pursuant to section 13-0319 of this title.
     9    §  4.  Section  342-ww  of the highway law, as amended by section 9 of
    10  part M of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
    11    § 342-ww. Portion of the New York state thruway to  be  designated  as
    12  the  "Jewish War Veterans Memorial Highway". All that portion of the New
    13  York state thruway in the county  of  Rockland  constituting  interstate
    14  route  287  from the New Jersey border to "The [Governor Mario M. Cuomo]
    15  Tappan Zee Bridge" shall be designated and  known  as  the  "Jewish  War
    16  Veterans Memorial Highway".
    17    §  5. Subdivision 2 of section 349-a of the highway law, as amended by
    18  section 10 of part M of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017,  is  amended  to
    19  read as follows:
    20    2.  The Hudson section. Beginning at the northerly end of the southern
    21  Westchester connection at or near Tuckahoe road,  thence  in  a  general
    22  northerly  and  westerly  direction crossing the Hudson river at a point
    23  south of Highland Falls, which crossing shall be known as "The [Governor
    24  Mario M. Cuomo] Tappan Zee Bridge", thence in a general westerly  direc-
    25  tion  to  intersect  with  existing  route  number  seventeen  or  to  a
    26  connection with that route, including a  thruway  connection  from  that
    27  portion  of the section west of the Hudson river, generally southerly to
    28  a point to be determined by the authority on  the  New  York-New  Jersey
    29  boundary line.
    30    §  6. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the instal-
    31  lation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state  highway  system
    32  as designated pursuant to this act.
    33    § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.