§ 86. Agreement to control erection and maintenance of advertising
devices. In order that the state of New York may be entitled to be paid
by the United States an increased share of the costs of projects on the
interstate highway system, the commissioner of transportation is hereby
authorized to enter into an agreement with the secretary of
transportation of the United States, as required by section one hundred
thirty-one of title twenty-three of the United States code, as amended
and to promulgate and enforce regulations in conformity with the
national policy, for control of the erection and maintenance of
advertising signs, displays, and other advertising devices within six
hundred and sixty feet of the edge of the right of way of controlled
portions of the interstate highways system which are constructed upon
any part of right of way, the entire width of which is acquired
subsequent to July first, nineteen hundred fifty-six, which do not
traverse commercial or industrial zones within the boundaries of
incorporated municipalities as of September twenty-first, nineteen
hundred fifty-nine, where in the use of real property adjacent to the
interstate highway system is subject to municipal regulation or control,
and which do not traverse other areas where the land use, as of
September twenty-first, nineteen hundred fifty-nine, was clearly
established under state law as industrial or commercial. The agreement
may also include provisions for preservation of natural beauty,
prevention of erosion, landscaping, reforestation, development of
viewpoints for scenic attractions that are accessible to the public
without charge, the erection of markers, signs or plaques, and the
development of areas, in appreciation of sites of historical
significance, to the extent that such provisions are within the existing
powers of the commissioner of transportation.

The commissioner of transportation shall take such action as is
necessary to obtain the maximum amount of federal funds available under
Federal Highway Aid Act of 1958.