Bill Text: NY A04931 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases reimbursement rates paid by the state to cities for repair and maintenance of state arterials; rate would be raised to one dollar and eighty cents from eighty-five cents per square yard of the pavement area that is included in the state highway system and an additional twenty cents, up from ten cents, per square yard of such pavement area where such pavement area is located on any elevated bridge.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 13-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to transportation [A04931 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A04931-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4931 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 9, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PALMESANO, GOODELL, HAWLEY, J. M. GIGLIO, ASHBY, BLANKENBUSH, BRABENEC, MORINELLO, NORRIS, REILLY, SALKA, SAYEGH, TAGUE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BYRNES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to increasing reimbursement rates paid by the state to cities for repair and maintenance of state arterials The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The first undesignated paragraph of subdivision 5-a of 2 section 340-b of the highway law, as amended by chapter 30 of the laws 3 of 1987, is amended to read as follows: 4 The commissioner of transportation and the city of New York, acting 5 through the mayor or other administrative head thereof, pursuant to a 6 resolution of the governing body of such city, are authorized to enter 7 into a written agreement for the maintenance and repair, under the 8 supervision and subject to the approval of the commissioner of transpor- 9 tation, of any state interstate highway or portion thereof, exclusive of 10 service roads and pavement on intersecting street bridges, which is 11 within the boundaries of such city and which is now or which shall here- 12 after be designated in section three hundred forty-a of this [chapter] 13 article and which has been constructed or which shall have been 14 constructed as authorized by section three hundred forty-a of this 15 [chapter] article. Such agreement may provide that the state shall pay 16 annually to such city a sum to be computed at the rate of (a) not more 17 than [eighty-five] one dollar and eighty cents per square yard of the 18 pavement area that is included in the state highway system according to 19 the provisions of this section, and (b) an additional [ten] twenty cents 20 per square yard of such pavement area where such pavement area is 21 located on any elevated bridge, such rate to be increased in each year 22 of the agreement by the percentage change in the consumer price index EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08079-01-1A. 4931 2 1 for all urban consumers (CPI-U), New York-Northern New Jersey-Long 2 Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, as published by the United States department of 3 labor bureau of labor statistics, over the prior five years. 4 § 2. The first undesignated paragraph of subdivision 7 of section 5 349-c of the highway law, as amended by chapter 30 of the laws of 1987, 6 is amended to read as follows: 7 The commissioner of transportation and any city named in this article, 8 acting through the mayor or other administrative head thereof, pursuant 9 to a resolution of the governing body of such city except the city of 10 New York, are authorized to enter into a written agreement for the main- 11 tenance and repair, under the supervision and subject to the approval of 12 the commissioner, of any public street, main route or thoroughfare or 13 portion thereof, exclusive of service roads and pavement on intersecting 14 street bridges, which is within the boundaries of such city and which is 15 now or which shall hereafter be designated in this article and which has 16 been constructed or which shall have been constructed as authorized by 17 [articles] this article and article four [and twelve-B] of this chapter 18 and with grants made available by the federal government pursuant to the 19 federal aid highway act of nineteen hundred forty-four, being public law 20 five hundred twenty-one of the seventy-eighth congress, chapter six 21 hundred twenty-six, second session, as approved on the twentieth day of 22 December, nineteen hundred forty-four. Such agreement may provide that 23 the state shall pay annually to such city a sum to be computed at the 24 rate of (a) not more than [eighty-five] one dollar and eighty cents per 25 square yard of the pavement area that is included in the state highway 26 system according to the provisions of this section, and (b) an addi- 27 tional [ten] twenty cents per square yard of such pavement area where 28 such pavement area is located on any elevated bridge , such rate to be 29 increased in each year of the agreement by the percentage change in the 30 consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U), New York-Northern 31 New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-CT-PA, as published by the United States 32 department of labor bureau of labor statistics, over the prior five 33 years. 34 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
