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                                  7896

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 23, 2016
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Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to increasing reimbursement
  rates paid by the state to cities for repair and maintenance of  state
  arterials

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The first undesignated  paragraph  of  subdivision  5-a  of
section  340-b  of the highway law, as amended by chapter 30 of the laws
of 1987, is amended to read as follows:
  5-a. The commissioner of transportation and  the  city  of  New  York,
acting  through the mayor or other administrative head thereof, pursuant
to a resolution of the governing body of such city,  are  authorized  to
enter into a written agreement for the maintenance and repair, under the
supervision and subject to the approval of the commissioner of transpor-
tation, of any state interstate highway or portion thereof, exclusive of
service  roads  and  pavement  on  intersecting street bridges, which is
within the boundaries of such city and which is now or which shall here-
after be designated in section three hundred forty-a of this chapter and
which has been constructed or  which  shall  have  been  constructed  as
authorized by section three hundred forty-a of this chapter. Such agree-
ment may provide that the state shall pay annually to such city a sum to
be  computed  at  the rate of (a) not more than [eighty-five] ONE DOLLAR
AND SEVENTY-SEVEN cents per square yard of the  pavement  area  that  is
included in the state highway system according to the provisions of this
section,  and  (b)  an  additional [ten] TWENTY cents per square yard of
such pavement area where such pavement area is located on  any  elevated
bridge,  SUCH  RATE TO BE INCREASED IN EACH YEAR OF THE AGREEMENT BY THE
PERCENTAGE CHANGE IN THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX FOR  ALL  URBAN  CONSUMERS
(CPI-U),  NEW  YORK-NORTHERN  NEW  JERSEY-LONG  ISLAND,  NY-NJ-CT-PA, AS
PUBLISHED BY THE UNITED STATES  DEPARTMENT  OF  LABOR  BUREAU  OF  LABOR
STATISTICS, OVER THE PRIOR FIVE YEARS.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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  S  2.  The  first  undesignated  paragraph of subdivision 7 of section
349-c of the highway law, as amended by chapter 30 of the laws of  1987,
is amended to read as follows:
  The commissioner of transportation and any city named in this article,
acting  through the mayor or other administrative head thereof, pursuant
to a resolution of the governing body of such city except  the  city  of
New York, are authorized to enter into a written agreement for the main-
tenance and repair, under the supervision and subject to the approval of
the  commissioner,  of  any public street, main route or thoroughfare or
portion thereof, exclusive of service roads and pavement on intersecting
street bridges, which is within the boundaries of such city and which is
now or which shall hereafter be designated in this article and which has
been constructed or which shall have been constructed as  authorized  by
[articles]  THIS ARTICLE AND ARTICLE four [and twelve-B] of this chapter
and with grants made available by the federal government pursuant to the
federal aid highway act of nineteen hundred forty-four, being public law
five hundred twenty-one of  the  seventy-eighth  congress,  chapter  six
hundred  twenty-six, second session, as approved on the twentieth day of
December, nineteen hundred forty-four. Such agreement may  provide  that
the  state  shall  pay annually to such city a sum to be computed at the
rate of (a) not more than [eighty-five]  ONE  DOLLAR  AND  SEVENTY-SEVEN
cents per square yard of the pavement area that is included in the state
highway  system  according to the provisions of this section, and (b) an
additional [ten] TWENTY cents per square  yard  of  such  pavement  area
where  such  pavement area is located on any elevated bridge , SUCH RATE
TO BE INCREASED IN EACH YEAR OF THE AGREEMENT BY THE  PERCENTAGE  CHANGE
IN  THE  CONSUMER  PRICE  INDEX  FOR  ALL  URBAN  CONSUMERS (CPI-U), NEW
YORK-NORTHERN NEW JERSEY-LONG ISLAND, NY-NJ-CT-PA, AS PUBLISHED  BY  THE
UNITED  STATES  DEPARTMENT OF LABOR BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, OVER THE
PRIOR FIVE YEARS.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of April next  succeeding
the date on which it shall have become a law.