Bill Text: NY S05958 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the general powers and duties of the canal corporation; requires the canal corporation to cause the locks and lift bridges of the canal system to be operated May first through November fifteenth annually; requires the canal corporation to maintain and preserve the Erie Canal's historic resources; permits certain usage of the canal system's state drydocks, travel lifts, and other facilities for commercial boat companies.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-29 - PRINT NUMBER 5958A [S05958 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S05958-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5958--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 24, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. MAY, BROUK, HELMING, HINCHEY, JORDAN, KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the canal law, in relation to the general powers and duties of 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 14 of section 10 of the canal law, as amended 2 by chapter 420 of the laws of 1968, is amended and two new subdivisions 3 6-a and 8-a are added to read as follows: 4 6-a. Cause the locks and lift bridges of the canal system to be oper- 5 ated annually for the passage of commercial and recreational traffic 6 between May first and November fifteenth, generally, subject to natural 7 conditions, weather, required maintenance, capital rehabilitation work, 8 or other factors related to safe canal operation. 9 8-a. Maintain and preserve the integrity of the Erie Canal's historic 10 resources, including its structures, floating plant, and unique landside 11 features. 12 14. Permit commercial boat [owners] companies operating upon the canal 13 system to use state drydocks, travel lifts, or other facilities for 14 required coast guard drydock inspections, for non-navigation season 15 storage, or while making emergency repairs to their vessels at rates 16 prescribed under subchapter D of chapter III of title twenty-one of the 17 New York state codes, rules and regulations. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10619-04-2
