Requires highway projects that receive state funding to include the assessment and repair of water infrastructure; provides for access to such water infrastructure.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1289
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 11, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. HINCHEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the transportation law and the general municipal law, in
relation to requiring highway projects that receive state funding to
include the assessment and completion of any water infrastructure
repairs and providing for access to such water infrastructure
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. Water infrastructure assessment and repair for certain highway
4 projects. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, any
5 highway project which receives state funding shall include an assessment
6 and completion of any water infrastructure in need of repair immediately
7 or within the next five years. For the purposes of this section, the
8 term "water infrastructure" shall be deemed to include any pipes or
9 other conduits for drinking water, wastewater and storm water.
10 § 2. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new section
11 120-y to read as follows:
12 § 120-y. Water infrastructure assessment and repair. Municipalities,
13 in consultation with the department of transportation, shall ensure that
14 access is granted to any water pipe or conduit installed pursuant to the
15 provisions of section twenty-three of the transportation law.
16 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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