Authorizes the thruway authority to enter into mutual assistance agreements with municipalities and outdoor organizations for the assistance of motorists on the thruway during an emergency; authorizes the thruway authority to reimburse such municipalities and organizations for actual expenses incurred in rendering such services.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4139
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 3, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations, Author-
ities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law and the general municipal
law, in relation to mutual assistance agreements for the assistance of
motorists on any thruway during an emergency
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new
2 section 389 to read as follows:
3 § 389. Assistance to motorists during an emergency. The authority is
4 authorized to enter into mutual assistance agreements with munici-
5 palities and snowmobile and other outdoor organizations for the delivery
6 of services to motorists on any thruway during an emergency. The author-
7 ity is also authorized to reimburse a municipality or snowmobile or
8 other outdoor organization for actual expenses incurred in the rendering
9 of such services as a result of an accident or incident on such thruway.
10 § 2. Section 99-r of the general municipal law, as amended by section
11 2 of part F of chapter 55 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as
12 follows:
13 § 99-r. Contracts for services. Notwithstanding any other provisions
14 of law to the contrary, the governing board of any municipal corporation
15 may enter into agreements and/or contracts with any state agency includ-
16 ing any department, board, bureau, commission, division, office, coun-
17 cil, committee, or officer of the state, whether permanent or temporary,
18 or a public benefit corporation or public authority, or a soil and water
19 conservation district, and any unit of the state university of New York,
20 pursuant to and consistent with sections three hundred fifty-five and
21 sixty-three hundred one of the education law within or without such
22 municipal corporation to provide or receive fuel, equipment, maintenance
23 and repair, supplies, water supply, street sweeping or maintenance,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 sidewalk maintenance, right-of-way maintenance, storm water and other
2 drainage, sewage disposal, landscaping, mowing, technology services,
3 assistance to motorists during an emergency on any thruway as such term
4 is defined in section three hundred fifty-one of the public authorities
5 law, or any other services of government. Such state agency, soil and
6 water conservation district, or unit of the state university of New
7 York, within the limits of any specific statutory appropriation author-
8 ized and made available therefor by the legislature or by the governing
9 body responsible for the operation of such state agency, soil and water
10 conservation district, or unit of the state university of New York may
11 contract with any municipal corporation for such services as herein
12 provided and may provide, in agreements and/or contracts entered into
13 pursuant to this section, for the reciprocal provision of services or
14 other consideration of approximately equivalent value, including, but
15 not limited to, routine and/or emergency services, monies, equipment,
16 buildings and facilities, materials or a commitment to provide future
17 routine and/or emergency services, monies, equipment, buildings and
18 facilities or materials. Any such contract may be entered into by direct
19 negotiations and shall not be subject to the provisions of section one
20 hundred three of this chapter.
21 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
