Directs the department of state to provide municipalities with reimbursement for 75% of the costs of making road, construction and excavation equipment less likely to rollover.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5921
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
July 29, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to providing state
reimbursement for a portion of the expenses of retrofitting municipal
construction and road equipment to prevent rollovers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The highway law is amended by adding a new section 318 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 318. Municipal equipment rollover prevention; state reimbursement.
4 1. The department of state, acting by and through its division of local
5 government, shall establish a program which provides counties, cities,
6 towns and villages with reimbursement for seventy-five percent of the
7 costs and expenses, including program and administrative expenses,
8 incurred in the purchase and installation of parts and equipment which
9 prevent the rollover of any construction, excavation or road equipment
10 owned and operated by such municipality.
11 2. The secretary of state is authorized to promulgate any rules and
12 regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this section,
13 including determining which construction, excavation and road equipment
14 shall be eligible for reimbursement.
15 3. Only equipment owned and operated by a municipality prior to the
16 effective date of this section shall be eligible for reimbursement
17 pursuant to this section.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
19 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11661-01-3
