Amd 356, add 389, Pub Auth L; amd 13-0103 & 13-0307, En Con L; amd 342-ww & 349-a, Hway L
Renames the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Tappan Zee Bridge; renames the Welcome Center at the Westchester Landing for the Mario M. Cuomo Bridge the Governor Malcolm Wilson Welcome Center.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8337
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
October 20, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. ABINANTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, the environmental conserva-
tion law and the highway law, in relation to renaming the Governor
Mario M. Cuomo bridge the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Tappan Zee bridge;
and to amend the public authorities law in relation to renaming the
Welcome Center at the Westchester Landing for the Mario M. Cuomo
Bridge the Governor Malcolm Wilson Welcome Center
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 356 of the public authorities law,
2 as amended by section 6 of part M of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 2. The Hudson section. Beginning at the northerly end of the southern
5 Westchester connection at or near Tuckahoe road, thence in a general
6 northerly and westerly direction crossing the Hudson river at a point
7 south of Highland Falls, which crossing shall be known as "The Governor
8 Mario M. Cuomo Tappan Zee Bridge", including a highway connection
9 between "The Governor Mario M. Cuomo Tappan Zee Bridge" and the New
10 England section of the thruway presently known as interstate route two
11 hundred eighty-seven, thence in a general westerly direction to inter-
12 sect with existing route number seventeen or to a connection with that
13 route, including a thruway connection from that portion of the section
14 west of the Hudson river, generally southerly to a point to be deter-
15 mined by the authority on the New York-New Jersey boundary line.
16 § 2. Section 13-0103 of the environmental conservation law, as amended
17 by section 7 of part M of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017, is amended to
18 read as follows:
19 § 13-0103. Marine and coastal district described.
20 The marine and coastal district shall include the waters of the Atlan-
21 tic Ocean within three nautical miles from the coast line and all other
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13109-01-1
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1 tidal waters within the state, including the Hudson River up to the
2 Governor Mario M. Cuomo Tappan Zee bridge.
3 § 3. Subdivision 1 of section 13-0307 of the environmental conserva-
4 tion law, as amended by section 8 of part M of chapter 61 of the laws of
5 2017, is amended to read as follows:
6 1. The department periodically shall examine all shellfish lands with-
7 in the marine district and the Hudson River between the Governor Mario
8 M. Cuomo Tappan Zee bridge and the federal dam at Troy to ascertain the
9 sanitary condition thereof in accordance with regulations promulgated
10 pursuant to section 13-0319 of this title.
11 § 4. Section 342-ww of the highway law, as amended by section 9 of
12 part M of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
13 § 342-ww. Portion of the New York state thruway to be designated as
14 the "Jewish War Veterans Memorial Highway". All that portion of the New
15 York state thruway in the county of Rockland constituting interstate
16 route 287 from the New Jersey border to "The Governor Mario M. Cuomo
17 Tappan Zee Bridge" shall be designated and known as the "Jewish War
18 Veterans Memorial Highway".
19 § 5. Subdivision 2 of section 349-a of the highway law, as amended by
20 section 10 of part M of chapter 61 of the laws of 2017, is amended to
21 read as follows:
22 2. The Hudson section. Beginning at the northerly end of the southern
23 Westchester connection at or near Tuckahoe road, thence in a general
24 northerly and westerly direction crossing the Hudson river at a point
25 south of Highland Falls, which crossing shall be known as "The Governor
26 Mario M. Cuomo Tappan Zee Bridge", thence in a general westerly direc-
27 tion to intersect with existing route number seventeen or to a
28 connection with that route, including a thruway connection from that
29 portion of the section west of the Hudson river, generally southerly to
30 a point to be determined by the authority on the New York-New Jersey
31 boundary line.
32 § 6. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new section 389
33 to read as follows:
34 § 389. The Welcome Center at the Westchester Landing for the Mario M.
35 Cuomo Bridge located at the southern Westchester connection of the
36 Governor Mario M. Cuomo Tappan Zee Bridge shall henceforth be known as
37 "The Governor Malcolm Wilson Welcome Center."
38 § 7. The commissioner of transportation shall provide for the instal-
39 lation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state highway system
40 as designated pursuant to this act.
41 § 8. This act shall take effect immediately.
