Requires that the department of transportation and every municipality, locality and public authority shall not spread road salt at a rate higher than three hundred pounds per lane mile on average during each snow and ice management season.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9922
IN SENATE
April 16, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to imposing certain
requirements for the distribution of road salt
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The transportation law is amended by adding a new section
2 23 to read as follows:
3 § 23. Distribution of road salt. 1. The department, every munici-
4 pality, locality, and public authority shall not spread road salt at a
5 rate higher than three hundred pounds per lane mile on average during
6 each snow and ice management season. The limits for application on
7 parking lots and sidewalks is set at 4.7 pounds per one thousand square
8 feet.
9 2. For the purposes of this section, the term "road salt" shall mean a
10 mineral form of sodium chloride to melt snow and ice on roads by lower-
11 ing water's freezing point.
12 3. All road salt equipment shall be metered and calibrated.
13 4. The department shall provide annual data on its website to the
14 public regarding the use of road salt.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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