Assembly Bill A23

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires the department of transportation to include in its existing vegetative management program the removal of invasive vines

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  • 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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2025-A23 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Highway Law
Laws Affected:
Add §333, Hway L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A10693

2025-A23 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the department of transportation to include in its existing vegetative management program the removal of invasive vines which are so hazardous that they pose an imminent danger of causing trees or tree limbs to fall onto highways.

2025-A23 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    23
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to requiring the department
   of transportation to include in  its  existing  vegetative  management
   program the removal of invasive vines

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The highway law is amended by adding a new section  333  to
 read as follows:
   §  333. ROADSIDE MAINTENANCE; INVASIVE VINES. THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANS-
 PORTATION SHALL INCLUDE IN ITS EXISTING  VEGETATIVE  MANAGEMENT  PROGRAM
 THE  REMOVAL  OF  VINES  WHICH  HAVE GROWN INTO OR AROUND TREES AND HAVE
 COMPROMISED THE STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY OF THE TREE OR LIMBS OF THE TREE IN
 A MANNER THAT POSES AN IMMINENT DANGER OF CAUSING THE TREE OR  LIMBS  OF
 THE TREE TO FALL ONTO A STATE HIGHWAY OR A STATE THRUWAY.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00035-01-5

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