Relates to consolidated local highway assistance payments; increases the amount of the current cost threshold to $750,000 over which local highway and bridge construction work under the CHIPS program must be contracted through a competitive bid.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5912
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 2, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. PALMESANO, ASHBY, BLANKENBUSH, BRABENEC, GOODELL,
HAWLEY, J. M. GIGLIO, MORINELLO, NORRIS, BYRNE, SALKA, SMULLEN, TAGUE,
WALCZYK -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BYRNES -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the highway law and the transportation law, in relation
to consolidated local highway assistance payments
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 4 of section 10-c of the high-
2 way law, as amended by section 1 of part A of chapter 58 of the laws of
3 2020, is amended to read as follows:
4 (e) Funds allocated for local street or highway projects under this
5 subdivision shall be used to undertake work on a project either with the
6 municipality's own forces or by contract, provided however, that whenev-
7 er the estimate for the construction contract work exceeds one hundred
8 thousand dollars but does not exceed [three] seven hundred fifty thou-
9 sand dollars such work must be performed either with the municipality's
10 own forces or by contract let by competitive bid in accordance with the
11 provisions of section one hundred three of the general municipal law and
12 provided further, however, that whenever the estimate for the
13 construction contract work exceeds [three] seven hundred fifty thousand
14 dollars such work must be performed by contract let by competitive bid
15 in accordance with the provisions of section one hundred three of the
16 general municipal law.
17 § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 234 of the transportation law, as
18 amended by section 2 of part A of chapter 58 of the laws of 2020, is
19 amended to read as follows:
20 6. for local street or highway projects, to undertake the work of the
21 project either with its own forces or by contract, however, whenever the
22 estimate for the construction contract work exceeds [three] seven
23 hundred fifty thousand dollars such work must be performed by contract
24 let by the competitive bid process.
25 § 3. 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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