Bill Text: NY A09913 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Removes a portion of the state highway system from the Catskill section of the thruway.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-18 - REFERRED TO RULES [A09913 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09913-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9913
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 28, 2014
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Roberts) --
         (at request of the Thruway Authority) -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to removing I-84
         from the Catskill section of the thruway; and to repeal section 21  of
         the  court  of  claims act relating to removing consent by the commis-
         sioner of the department  of  transportation  for  the  settlement  of
         claims by the canal corporation
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 356 of the public authorities law,
    2  as amended by chapter 53 of the laws of 1992,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    3.  The Catskill section. Beginning at the northerly end of the Hudson
    5  section, extending in a general northerly direction in the  vicinity  of
    6  Central  Valley,  Highland  Mills,  Woodbury  Falls,  Vails Gate, thence
    7  through or passing Newburgh on the west, [including a highway connection
    8  which runs from the Pennsylvania line at Port Jervis to the  Connecticut
    9  border  east of Brewster, presently known as interstate route 84, except
   10  for that portion of the highway connection between the interchange  with
   11  the  easternmost  state  highway  on  the west shore of the Hudson river
   12  (currently designated state touring route 9W) and the  interchange  with
   13  the  westernmost  state  highway  on  the east shore of the Hudson river
   14  (currently designated state touring route 9D) which is  subject  to  the
   15  jurisdiction  of  the New York state bridge authority,] thence northerly
   16  past Plattekill and New Paltz, thence passing through or near  the  city
   17  of Kingston and continuing northerly to the west of Saugerties and Cats-
   18  kill, continuing northerly passing in the vicinity of West Coxsackie and
   19  Ravena,  thence  northerly  passing the Feura Bush railroad yards in the
   20  vicinity of  either  their  easterly  or  westerly  extremities,  thence
   21  continuing northerly passing to the west or through the westerly part of
   22  the  city  of Albany, and intersecting United States route number twenty
   23  in the vicinity of McKownville.
   24    S 2. Section 21 of the court of claims act is REPEALED.
   25    S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD13913-01-4
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