Directs the authorities budget office to conduct a study on the financial effects of making local governments responsible for the upkeep in certain public areas immediately outside of properties owned or leased by public authorities.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4745
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 12, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
ment Operations
AN ACT requiring the authorities budget office to conduct a study on the
financial effects of making local governments responsible for upkeep
in public areas immediately outside of properties owned or leased by
public authorities; and providing for the repeal of such provisions
upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The director of the authorities budget office shall conduct
2 a comprehensive study analyzing the financial impact on local govern-
3 ments being responsible for the upkeep in public areas immediately
4 outside of properties owned or leased by public authorities, including
5 but not limited to, sidewalks.
6 § 2. For the purposes of this act, the director of the authorities
7 budget office may conduct such study in conjunction with any other
8 department, division, board, bureau, commission, agency, public authori-
9 ty, local government or municipality of the state deemed necessary. To
10 the maximum extent feasible, such director shall be authorized to
11 request, receive, and utilize such resources and data of any other
12 department, division, board, bureau, commission, agency, public authori-
13 ty, local government or municipality of the state as such director may
14 reasonably request to properly carry their powers and duties pursuant to
15 this act.
16 § 3. The director of the authorities budget office shall publish such
17 report to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the
18 speaker of the assembly, the chair of the senate committee on labor and
19 the chair of the assembly committee on labor no later than December 31,
20 2025.
21 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
22 deemed repealed January 1, 2026.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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