STATE OF NEW YORK
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1466--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 12, 2015
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Introduced by Sens. KENNEDY, PANEPINTO -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transporta-
tion -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance
with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to the creation of a
toll-free hotline and a website where motorists can report potholes
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 36 to read as follows:
3 36. The commissioner shall establish a toll-free twenty-four hour
4 hotline and interactive website by which persons may report the
5 locations of potholes on the state highway system including the thruway
6 and receive, at such person's request, notification when repairs to the
7 reported pothole have been completed. The commissioner shall also post
8 the locations of each reported pothole on such interactive website until
9 such time as such pothole is repaired.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
11 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
12 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
13 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
14 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03262-03-6
