Assembly Bill A7540

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to consolidated local highway assistance payments ("CHIPS")

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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-A7540 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Highway Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §10-c, Hway L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A8273

2025-A7540 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs CHIPS funds to be used for the purpose of constructing or maintaining bicycle paths, Greenway trails, and other multi-use trails.

2025-A7540 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7540
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 1, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. McMAHON, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, LUNSFORD, SHIMSKY,
   KELLES, SANTABARBARA, BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to consolidated local high-
   way assistance payments ("CHIPS")

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  10-c  of the highway law, as
 amended by chapter 20 of the laws of 1983, is amended and a new subdivi-
 sion 1-a is added to read as follows:
   1.  Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter or any  other
 law,  and  subject  to  an appropriation made therefor and in accordance
 with the provisions of this section and with the rules  and  regulations
 promulgated  by  the  commissioner in connection therewith, on and after
 the first day of April,  nineteen  hundred  eighty-two,  a  consolidated
 local  highway  assistance program is hereby established for the purpose
 of making payments toward the construction, operation and/or maintenance
 of highways, bridges [and], highway-railroad crossings,  BICYCLE  PATHS,
 GREENWAY  TRAILS,  AND OTHER PAVED TRAILS FOR NON-MOTORIZED USE that are
 not on the state highway system. For  purposes  of  this  section,  such
 program shall apply to any county, city, town or village highway, bridge
 [and/or],  highway-railroad  crossing,  BICYCLE  PATH,  GREENWAY  TRAIL,
 AND/OR OTHER PAVED TRAIL FOR NON-MOTORIZED USE within the state that  is
 not  on  the  state  highway system and not under the maintenance and/or
 operational jurisdiction of the state.   PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT  SUCH
 BICYCLE PATHS, GREENWAY TRAILS, AND OTHER PAVED TRAILS FOR NON-MOTORIZED
 USE  SHALL  EITHER  BE  WITHIN THE RIGHT OF WAY OF, OR BISECT, TRANSECT,
 BEGIN, OR TERMINATE AT, A HIGHWAY RIGHT OF WAY THAT IS NOT ON THE  STATE
 HIGHWAY  SYSTEM  AND NOT UNDER THE MAINTENANCE AND/OR OPERATIONAL JURIS-
 DICTION OF THE STATE. The commissioner shall  promulgate  all  necessary
 rules  and  regulations  to  carry  out the program so that an equitable
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09636-02-5
              

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