Senate Bill S9505

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to applications and state aid for snowmobile trail development and maintenance

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2023-S9505 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §27.17, Pks & Rec L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S6711

2023-S9505 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires local governments applying for a snowmobile trail development and maintenance grant to file an application in September, rather than an estimate of the expenditures; changes the allocation formula for the snowmobile trail maintenance and development fund; makes related provisions.

2023-S9505 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S9505 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9505
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 16, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  COONEY,  BRESLIN, MANNION, RYAN -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Transportation
 
 AN  ACT to amend the parks, recreation and historic preservation law, in
   relation to applications and state aid for snowmobile  trail  develop-
   ment and maintenance

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 5 of section 27.17 of the parks,  recre-
 ation and historic preservation law, subdivision 3 as amended by section
 2  of  part  G  of  chapter  82 of the laws of 2002 and subdivision 5 as
 amended by chapter 88 of the laws  of  1988,  are  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   3. Every county or, where applicable, any city, town or village within
 such county, shall be eligible for a grant for the development and main-
 tenance  of  a  system  of snowmobile trails and a program with relation
 thereto within its boundaries. Such grants shall be made by the  commis-
 sioner  and may constitute up to one hundred percent of the cost of such
 program including expenditures incurred for signs and markers of snowmo-
 bile trails. Any county or, where applicable, any city, town or  village
 within  such county, applying for such grant shall submit to the commis-
 sioner by September first of each year an [estimate of such expenditures
 for the current fiscal year,] APPLICATION in such  form  and  containing
 such  information  as  the  commissioner  may  require. No city, town or
 village may apply for such grant where the county  within  which  it  is
 contained has submitted an application for the same fiscal year. For the
 purpose  of this section, "fiscal year" shall mean the period from April
 first through March thirty-first. The commissioner shall review all such
 applications and shall determine the amount of state aid to be allocated
 to each county or, where applicable, any city, town  or  village  within
 such  county  in  accordance  with the provisions of subdivision five of
 this section. Of the amount the commissioner determines each county  or,
 where applicable, any city, town or village within such county is eligi-
 ble to receive, seventy percent shall be made available for distribution
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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