Amd 356, 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; directs the commissioner of transportation to provide for the installation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state highway system.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4558--A
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 10, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. SKOUFIS, BORRELLO, MURRAY, OBERACKER, PALUMBO,
RIVERA, STEC, TEDISCO, WEBER, WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
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
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.
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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 commissioner of transportation shall provide for the instal-
33 lation and maintenance of adequate signing of the state highway system
34 as designated pursuant to this act.
35 § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.