STATE OF NEW YORK
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4715
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 15, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to the threshold amount of
requiring a project to be subject to competitive bidding
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subdivision 4 of section 10-c of the high-
2 way law, as amended by chapter 413 of the laws of 1991, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (e) Funds allocated for local street or highway projects under this
5 subdivision shall be used to undertake work on a project either with the
6 municipality's own forces or by contract, provided however, that whenev-
7 er the estimate for the construction contract work exceeds [one] two
8 hundred fifty thousand dollars such work must be performed by contract
9 let by competitive bid in accordance with the provisions of section one
10 hundred three of the general municipal law.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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