Bill Text: NY A07016 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of transportation to report on collisions that have occurred between motor vehicles and bridges or elevated structures on or crossing highways under the jurisdiction of the department of transportation in the annual report to the legislature.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-25 - signed chap.575 [A07016 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07016-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         7016--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Transportation --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered  reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted to said committee --
          reported and referred to the Committee on  Rules  --  Rules  Committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to the Committee on Rules

        AN  ACT  to  amend the highway law, in relation to requiring the commis-
          sioner of transportation to provide a report on collisions  that  have
          occurred  between motor vehicles and bridges or elevated structures on
          or crossing highways

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  10 of the highway law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 18-a to read as follows:
     3    18-a. Include, in addition to the requirements of subdivision eighteen
     4  of this section, in his or her annual report to the legislature a state-
     5  ment of the number of motor vehicle collisions with bridges and elevated
     6  structures on or crossing highways under the jurisdiction of the depart-
     7  ment during the previous year, the  location  of  such  collisions,  any
     8  repairs  completed  including  any  actions  performed at or around such
     9  bridges and elevated structures to prevent the future occurrence of such
    10  collisions, any efforts of the department during the  previous  year  to
    11  prevent such collisions, and any recommendations in relation to prevent-
    12  ing  such motor vehicle collisions with bridges and elevated structures.
    13  Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to supersede any other  report-
    14  ing  requirements  otherwise imposed upon the department by law, rule or
    15  regulation.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    17  law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06898-08-3
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