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                                   5410
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 13, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  highway  law, in relation to the creation of an
   exception on the Korean war veterans parkway in  Richmond  county  for
   the use of certain commercial vehicles

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3.4 of section 349-c of  the  highway  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  453  of  the  laws  of 2008, is amended to read as
 follows:
   3.4. The state shall proceed with the construction  of  a  section  or
 sections  of [said] SUCH system after designs, plans, specifications and
 estimates of cost thereof have been completed and approved by  the  city
 and  the  commissioner of transportation, and the necessary property has
 been acquired. The city may, however, elect to construct such section or
 sections at its own expense in the manner provided by the  city  charter
 or  otherwise. Upon the completion by the state of a section or sections
 of parkways constructed by the state  in  the  city  of  New  York,  the
 commissioner  of  transportation shall by official order transfer juris-
 diction over the central express artery and adjacent landscape areas and
 over adjacent service roads to the city of New York. All such  parkways,
 excepting  such service roads shall be maintained by the city department
 of transportation as parkways restricted to pleasure vehicles and  with-
 out  access except at designated points, except that the city department
 of transportation may adopt a rule permitting the use of  a  portion  of
 the  Grand  Central parkway between the Robert F. Kennedy bridge and the
 western leg of the Brooklyn-Queens expressway AND PERMITTING THE USE  OF
 THE  KOREAN  WAR  VETERANS  PARKWAY  IN  RICHMOND  COUNTY by single unit
 commercial vehicles having no more  than  three  axles  and  ten  tires.
 Parkway  service  roads  shall  be  open  to  mixed  traffic.  Upon  the
 completion of a section or sections of expressways including  incidental
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 service  roads  constructed  by  the  state in the city of New York, the
 commissioner of transportation shall transfer jurisdiction to  the  city
 of  New  York.  The  provisions  of this article in regard to design and
 construction shall apply also to reconstruction of a section or sections
 of the state arterial system.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.