STATE OF NEW YORK
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961--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 10, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. BUTLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in
accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to authorizing the town of
Deerfield in Oneida county to transfer jurisdiction of a road to the
state
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 31 of section 341 of the highway law is amended
2 by adding a new paragraph 6 to read as follows:
3 6. Effective April first, two thousand nineteen, the legislative body
4 of the town of Deerfield in the county of Oneida, having previously
5 approved the abandonment of certain town roads, as set forth in this
6 subdivision, the commissioner is authorized and directed to assume
7 jurisdiction for state highway purposes over the road identified as the
8 south-bound service road and associated ramp sections built under New
9 York state department of transportation contract D250071 in nineteen
10 hundred eighty-two parallel to state route eight and twelve from the
11 city of Utica line north to the Mulaney Road interchange, including any
12 pavement, shoulder area, drainage system, landscaping, curbs, and
13 guiderail located thereon or immediately adjacent thereto.
14 § 2. The commissioner of transportation and the town of Deerfield are
15 authorized to permanently close such portions of the highway transferred
16 to the state as necessary to eliminate travel over sections of the high-
17 way that are unfit or unnecessary for travel due to flooding or erosion,
18 provided, however, that provision is made for the access to or acquisi-
19 tion of any properties that would be denied access to public highways
20 due to such closure.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 3. This transfer of jurisdiction shall be deemed to transfer all
2 right, title and interest of the town of Deerfield in the transferred
3 highways to the state. Furthermore, the state acquisition of such prop-
4 erty pursuant to this act shall be deemed to be an acquisition pursuant
5 to section 30 of the highway law for all subsequent purposes and uses.
6 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.