NY Hwy L § 10-D (2021)
2021 New York Laws HAY - Highway Article 2 - Commissioner of Transportation 10-D - Statewide Preventive Maintenance Plan for Highways and Bridges.

§  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 and bridges in a state of good repair. These activities may correct minor defects as  a secondary benefit.  (b) "Pavement  management  system"  shall  mean  a system to assist in determining the optimum strategy to preserve state pavements in  a  safe and  serviceable  condition  at  the  lowest  feasible total capital and maintenance cost over the useful life  of  such  pavement.  Such  system shall  conform  with or exceed federal requirements and shall include an annual survey of state highway pavement conditions.  (c) "Bridge management system"  shall  mean  a  system  to  assist  in determining the optimum strategy to preserve state bridges in a safe and serviceable   condition   at  the  lowest  feasible  total  capital  and maintenance cost over the useful life of such bridges. Such system shall conform with  or  exceed  federal  requirements  and  shall  include  an inspection  of  state  bridges  in  accordance  with section two hundred thirty-two of this chapter.   2. Statewide preventive maintenance plan. Every year the  commissioner shall  develop  a five-year plan for the preventive maintenance of state highways and bridges. The plan shall be submitted to  the  governor  and the  chairs  of  the  senate finance committee and the assembly ways and means committee at the time the department  submits  its  annual  budget request,  but no later than December thirty-first of each year. The plan shall:  (a) describe the current condition of state highways, by setting forth the number of lane  miles  in  each  highway  condition  level  in  each department  of  transportation  residency  and region based on an annual pavement  condition  survey  conducted  pursuant  to  the   department's pavement management system;  (b)  describe the current condition of state bridges, by setting forth the number of bridges in each bridge condition level in each  department of transportation region based on an inspection of each bridge conducted pursuant  to the department's bridge management system and in accordance with section two hundred thirty-two of this chapter;  (c) establish goals for the condition  of  the  state's  highways  and bridges  for  each  of  the next five fiscal years which can be achieved through an integrated  program  of  capital  investment  and  preventive maintenance,  set  forth  for each highway and bridge condition level in each department of transportation region;  (d) describe the  preventive  maintenance  activities  and  levels  of funding projected to be necessary to achieve the goals for the condition of  the  state's  highways  and bridges for each of the next five fiscal years, set forth for each highway and bridge  condition  level  in  each department of transportation region. Such description shall be developed utilizing  the  department's  pavement  management and bridge management systems;  (e) demonstrate the cost effectiveness of these preventive maintenance activities and levels of funding through an  analysis  of  the  cost  of alternative  preventive  maintenance  techniques  over the life cycle of state highways and bridges consistent with the highway  law  life  cycle requirements;  (f) summarize the preventive maintenance work which could occur if the amounts   requested  for  the  next  fiscal  year  pursuant  to  section fourteen-b of the state finance law are appropriated, set forth for each  state highway pavement condition level by department  of  transportation residency,  and  for  each state bridge condition level by department of transportation region; and  (g)  commencing  with the statewide preventive maintenance plan due no later than December thirty-first, nineteen hundred ninety-five,  provide information  relative  to the prior and current fiscal year's preventive maintenance plan, including the extent to which goals  relative  to  the condition   of  state  highways  and  bridges  established  pursuant  to paragraph (c) of this subdivision have been achieved, set forth for each state highway and bridge condition level by department of transportation region.   3. Submission of  the  statewide  preventive  maintenance  plan  shall constitute  compliance  with  the  requirements  of  subdivision  (d) of section fourteen-b and section twenty-six of the state finance law.   4. Incorporation  of  statewide  preventive  maintenance  plan.    The statewide  preventive maintenance plan developed pursuant to subdivision two of this section shall be incorporated into the department's  capital projects  statement  to be submitted to the governor pursuant to section fourteen-b of the state finance law, and  shall  be  considered  by  the division of the budget prior to the submission of the budget pursuant to section twenty-two of the state finance law.   5.  Within  nine  months  after the enactment of the budget for fiscal year nineteen hundred ninety-three--ninety-four, the commissioner  shall submit  to  the  governor  a  summary of the preventive maintenance work which has been undertaken or is planned to be undertaken in such  fiscal year.  Copies of such summary shall forthwith be furnished to the chairs of  the  senate  finance  committee  and  the  assembly  ways  and means committee.   6. Independent program evaluation. The commissioner shall cause to  be performed  once  every  five  years  an  independent  evaluation  of the preventive maintenance of state highways and  bridges.  Such  evaluation shall  be  conducted  by  a  professional engineering firm expert in the field of preventive maintenance and preventive maintenance planning. The first evaluation shall be  submitted  to  the  governor  no  later  than October  first, nineteen hundred ninety-five, and succeeding evaluations shall be submitted every five years thereafter.  Such  evaluation  shall include but not be limited to:  (a)  an  assessment  of  the adequacy of the preventive maintenance of state highways and bridges;  (b) an  assessment  of  the  adequacy  of  the  department's  pavement management  system  and bridge management system and recommendations for improvements to those systems;  (c) recommendations for any improvements or technological advances  in the way in which the state should maintain state highways and bridges;  (d) an assessment as to whether the level or allocation of funding for the  preventive  maintenance of state highways and bridges is sufficient considering the goals for the condition  of  the  state's  highways  and bridges  for  the  next  five fiscal years as set forth in the statewide preventive maintenance plan developed pursuant  to  subdivision  two  of this section.   7.  Liability provisions. No preventive maintenance plan or evaluation of such plan required by this section shall be admissible in any  action or  proceeding in which the state or any of its departments, agencies or authorities,  or  any   municipal   corporation   or   other   political subdivision,  or  any  officer or employee thereof, is a party, to prove the existence of a particular defect or dangerous condition of a highway or bridge; nor shall the state or any of its  departments,  agencies  or authorities,   or   any   municipal   corporation   or  other  political  subdivision, or any officer or employee  thereof,  be  held  liable  for damages  as  a  result  of  a  failure  to  comply  with  any preventive maintenance plan required by this section or to take  any  action  as  a result of an evaluation of such plan.