STATE OF NEW YORK
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7908
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 28, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. BYRNE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to allowing for the emer-
gency repair of state highways within the Town of Somers
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 142-e to
2 read as follows:
3 § 142-e. Emergency repair of state highways. 1. The town board of the
4 town of Somers, Westchester county, may authorize the town superinten-
5 dent to repair state routes thirty-five, one hundred, one hundred
6 sixteen, one hundred eighteen, one hundred thirty-eight, one hundred
7 thirty-nine and two hundred two within the town where a section of the
8 state highway:
9 (a) requires immediate repairs;
10 (b) has caused damage to multiple vehicles traveling on the highway;
11 and
12 (c) will not be repaired by the department in a timely manner.
13 2. Upon the town superintendent repairing a state highway, the depart-
14 ment shall reimburse the town for their actual costs for performing the
15 repair. Moneys received by a town pursuant to the provisions of this
16 section shall be first applied to the credit of the fund authorized by
17 subdivision four of section one hundred forty-one of this article to the
18 extent that any expense incurred was originally charged thereto, and the
19 balance of such moneys, if any, shall be credited to the fund authorized
20 by subdivision three of section one hundred forty-one of this article.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11595-03-9
