Bill Text: NY A02106 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of transportation to inspect and maintain barrier walls on special parkways.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-30 - enacting clause stricken [A02106 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02106-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2106
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 17, 2017
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        Introduced  by M. of A. MAYER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in  relation  to  requiring  the
          commissioner  of  transportation to inspect and maintain barrier walls
          on special parkways
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 70 of the transportation law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. (a) When used in this subdivision, unless otherwise expressly stat-
     4  ed, or unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires, the term
     5  "barrier  wall" shall mean an exterior, non-porous structure, erected or
     6  owned by the state, adjacent to a special parkway which  was  built  for
     7  the purpose of noise reduction and/or the prevention of flooding.
     8    (b)  At  regular  intervals,  but  not  less  than twice annually, the
     9  commissioner or his or her designee, shall inspect  all  barrier  walls.
    10  Such inspection shall include, at a minimum, an evaluation of the impact
    11  of the barrier wall on flooding in residential or commercial areas adja-
    12  cent to such barrier wall.
    13    (c)  After  such inspection, the commissioner shall take all necessary
    14  measures to mitigate the impact of the barrier wall on flooding to adja-
    15  cent residential or commercial  areas  and  shall  cause  all  necessary
    16  repairs  to  be  made  to  such  barrier walls to mitigate such flooding
    17  attributable in whole or in part to such barrier wall.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    19  have become a law, provided, however, that the commissioner of transpor-
    20  tation  is  authorized  and  directed  to promulgate any rules and regu-
    21  lations necessary to implement the provisions of this act on  or  before
    22  such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02686-01-7