Bill Text: NY S05079 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Creates a toll-free hotline and a website where motorists can report potholes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2018-12-28 - VETOED MEMO.353 [S05079 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S05079-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5079 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 7, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to the creation of a toll-free hotline and a website where motorists can report potholes The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by adding a 2 new subdivision 36 to read as follows: 3 36. The commissioner shall establish a toll-free twenty-four hour 4 hotline and interactive website by which persons may report the 5 locations of potholes on the state highway system including the thruway 6 and receive, at such person's request, notification when repairs to the 7 reported pothole have been completed. The commissioner shall also post 8 the locations of each reported pothole on such interactive website until 9 such time as such pothole is repaired. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 11 it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate- 12 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation 13 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are 14 authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03379-01-7
