§ 10. General powers and duties of the commissioner of transportation relating to highways. The commissioner of transportation shall: 1. Have general supervision of all highways and bridges which are constructed, improved or maintained in whole or in part by the aid of state moneys. 2. Cause surveys, maps, plans, specifications and estimates to be […]
§ 10-c. Consolidated local highway assistance payments. 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 […]
§ 10-d. Statewide preventive maintenance plan for highways and bridges. 1. Definitions. For the purposes of this section, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires: (a) “Preventive maintenance” shall mean planned activities undertaken by the commissioner to reduce or arrest the rate of deterioration of state highways and bridges, or to maintain such highways […]
§ 10-e. Additional special powers of the commissioner of transportation. 1. The commissioner of transportation, subject to the approval of the director of the budget, is hereby authorized to enter into a dedicated highway and bridge trust fund cooperative agreement or agreements with the New York state thruway authority for the financing by such authority […]
§ 10-f. Long Island suburban highway improvement program. 1. There is hereby established the “Long Island suburban highway improvement program”. 2. The program shall provide fifty million dollars to be made available as follows: State Fiscal Year 1993-1994 $12.5 million State Fiscal Year 1994-1995 $12.5 million State Fiscal Year 1995-1996 $12.5 million State Fiscal Year […]
§ 10-g. Hudson Valley suburban highway improvement program. 1. There is hereby established the “Hudson Valley suburban highway improvement program”. 2. The program shall provide ninety million dollars to be made available as follows: State Fiscal Year 1993-1994 $22.5 million State Fiscal Year 1994-1995 $22.5 million State Fiscal Year 1995-1996 $22.5 million State Fiscal Year […]
§ 11. Maps, plans, specifications and estimates. Whenever the commissioner of transportation shall have determined upon the construction or improvement of a state highway, or section thereof, he shall make or cause to be made surveys, and suitable preliminary maps, plans and specifications. The commissioner shall have the following powers and duties in respect to […]
§ 12. Commissioner to provide for maintenance, repair, and for control of snow and ice; roads and driveways on state lands. 1. The maintenance and repair of improved state highways in towns and incorporated villages, exclusive, however, of the cost of maintaining and repairing bridges having a span in excess of twenty feet shall be […]
§ 12-a. The New York state buy American salt act. 1. Use of American materials. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when soliciting a contract for the purchase of rock salt or sodium chloride, the commissioner of transportation may award such contract to the responsible and reliable bidder offering to supply rock salt or […]
§ 13. Qualifications of certain employees. To the end that the employees of the department of transportation engaged in the work of constructing, improving or maintaining highways under the provisions of this chapter may be practical highway builders, the commissioner is authorized to indicate to the civil service commission the relative value which should be […]
§ 14. Rules and regulations for state highways. The commissioner of transportation is hereby empowered to make rules and regulations from time to time for the protection of any state highway or section thereof. He may prohibit the use of chains or armored tires by motor vehicles upon such highways, and any violation of this […]
§ 15. Removal of vehicles. 1. The commissioner of transportation shall have the power to cause the removal and disposition of any vehicle left unattended for more than twenty-four hours within the right of way of any state highway or on any other public property under his jurisdiction. 2. The commissioner of transportation shall have […]
§ 16. Removal of noxious weeds and brush within state highways. The commissioner of transportation may cause noxious weeds, briers and brush growing within the bounds of state highways to be cut and removed, and the cost thereof shall be paid from funds as now provided under section two hundred and sixty-two of the highway […]
§ 17. Public hearings. To give the public an opportunity to become fully acquainted with proposed highway projects and to express its views on the social, economic and environmental effects of the proposed facilities, the commissioner of transportation, as he deems necessary, shall hold a public hearing or hearings, or offer the opportunity for such […]
§ 19. Planting trees and shrubs along state highways. The commissioner of transportation, in his discretion, may plant rows or groups of suitable trees along the bounds of existing state highways at such places as he may determine and may also plant on the banks of such cuts and fills as were made in constructing, […]
§ 19-a. Pollinator friendly plant species; medians. 1. The commissioner shall, in cooperation with the department of environmental conservation, develop policies and procedures to encourage the use of native plant species that are pollinator friendly in medians along highways under the jurisdiction of the department and to encourage and provide technical assistance to counties, cities, […]
§ 20. Roadside rest areas. 1. The commissioner of transportation is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire roadside sites along state highways and to develop roadside rest areas. The commissioner may utilize for this purpose suitable lands already owned by the state, except that use of any such lands in the forest preserve or under […]
§ 21. Restoration, preservation and enhancement of natural or scenic beauty. The commissioner of transportation is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire property for the restoration, preservation and enhancement of natural or scenic beauty of areas traversed by state highways, in order for the state to comply with any federal aid highway acts. Acquisition of […]
§ 22. Multi-use areas adjacent to and recreational, natural and scenic areas along state highways. The commissioner of transportation is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire property in order to provide multi-use areas adjacent to state highways and recreational, natural and scenic areas along, but not necessarily contiguous to, state highways, except that the commissioner […]
* § 23. Rubber-modified asphalt pilot project. 1. The commissioner shall undertake in nineteen hundred eighty-eight, a pilot project for the utilization of rubber-modified asphalt in the construction or improvement of state highways. Such rubber-modified asphalt pilot project shall utilize rubber derived from motor vehicle tires discarded in the state, including but not limited to […]
