STATE OF NEW YORK
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2310
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 24, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. KAVANAGH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the use of
wood in subway and railroad tracks
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1209 of the public authorities law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 11-a to read as follows:
3 11-a. (a) The authority shall not procure tropical hardwoods for new
4 or replacement subway and railroad track ties.
5 (b) For purposes of this subdivision, "tropical hardwood" shall
6 include any and all hardwood, scientifically classified as angiosperm,
7 that grows in any tropical moist old growth/primary forest between the
8 Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
9 § 2. Section 1265-a of the public authorities law is amended by adding
10 a new subdivision 6-a to read as follows:
11 6-a. (a) The authority shall not procure tropical hardwoods for new or
12 replacement subway and railroad track ties.
13 (b) For purposes of this subdivision, "tropical hardwood" shall
14 include any and all hardwood, scientifically classified as angiosperm,
15 that grows in any tropical moist old growth/primary forest between the
16 Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02452-01-9
