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2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 9 - Carriers of Household Goods by Motor Vehicle › 198-A - Enforcement.

§  198-a.  Enforcement.  The department shall enforce this article and
  any rules or regulations  promulgated  pursuant  thereto.  The  attorney
  general,  in  response  to  a request by the commissioner or a complaint
  from a consumer, or on the attorney general's own initiative,  may  seek
  equitable  relief  to  restrain any violation or threatened violation of
  section one hundred ninety-one of this article  requiring  certification
  of  common  carriers  of  household  goods  or  any rules or regulations
  promulgated  pursuant  to  such  section.  Whenever  there  shall  be  a
  violation  of section one hundred ninety-one of this article or any rule
  or regulation promulgated pursuant thereto, an application may  be  made
  by  the  attorney  general in the name of the people of the state of New
  York to a court or justice having jurisdiction by a  special  proceeding
  to issue an injunction and upon notice to the defendant of not less than
  five  days,  to enjoin and restrain the continuance of such violation or
  to enforce the provisions of such section or such rules and regulations.
  If it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court or justice that  the
  defendant  has, in fact, violated section one hundred ninety-one of this
  article or any rules or regulations  promulgated  pursuant  thereto,  an
  injunction  may  be  issued  by  such  court  or  justice, enjoining and
  restraining any further violation,  without  requiring  proof  that  any
  person has, in fact, been injured or damaged thereby.
In  any such proceeding, the court may make allowances to the attorney
  general as provided in paragraph  six  of  subdivision  (a)  of  section
  eighty-three  hundred  three  of  the  civil practice law and rules, and
  direct restitution. Whenever the court shall determine that a  violation
  of  section  one  hundred  ninety-one  of  this  article or any rules or
  regulations promulgated pursuant to such section has occurred, the court
  may also impose a civil penalty of up to one thousand dollars  for  each
  violation.  In  connection  with  any  such  proposed  application,  the
  attorney general may take proof and make a determination of the relevant
  facts and issue subpoenas in accordance with the civil practice law  and
  rules.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 9 - Carriers of Household Goods by Motor Vehicle › 199 - Liability for Damage to Property in Transit.

§ 199. Liability  for  damage  to  property  in  transit. Every common
  carrier of household goods by motor vehicle shall, upon demand, issue  a
  bill  of  lading for all property delivered to it for transportation. No
  contract, stipulation or clause in any bill of lading shall  exempt  any
  common  carrier  of  household goods by motor vehicle from any liability
  for loss, damage or injury caused by it to property from the time of its
  delivery for transportation until the same shall have been  received  at
  its destination and a reasonable time shall have elapsed after notice to
  the shipper of such arrival to permit the removal and inspection of such
  property;  provided, however, that a carrier may limit such liability to
  the value declared in writing by the shipper or agreed upon  in  writing
  by the carrier and the shipper as the released value of the property, in
  which case such declaration or agreement shall have no other effect than
  to  limit liability and recovery to an amount not exceeding the value so
  declared or released and shall not, so far as relates to values, be held
  to violate this article. Every common  carrier  of  household  goods  by
  motor vehicle shall be liable for all loss, damage or injury to property
  caused  by  delay  in  transit due to negligence while the same is being
  carried by it, but in any action to recover  for  damages  sustained  by
  delay in transit the burden of proof shall be upon the defendant to show
  that such delay was not due to negligence. Nothing in this section shall
  deprive  any  holder  of  such  bill of lading of any remedy or right of
  action which such holder has under existing law.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 9-A - Hours of Labor of Operators of Motor Trucks and Motor Buses › 210 - Application of This Article.

§ 210. Application  of this article. The term "motor truck" as used in
  this article shall be deemed to mean and include  any  commercial  motor
  vehicle  held  and  used  for  the  transportation  of  goods, wares and
  merchandise for hire or for a business purpose, pursuant  to  the  rules
  and  regulations  of  the  commissioner. The term "motor bus" as used in
  this article shall be deemed to mean and include  any  commercial  motor
  vehicle  held  and used for the transportation of passengers for hire or
  for a business purpose, pursuant to the rules  and  regulations  of  the
  commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 9-A - Hours of Labor of Operators of Motor Trucks and Motor Buses › 211 - General Provisions.

§  211.  General  provisions.  No driver of a motor truck or motor bus
  shall drive such vehicle or be on duty for any period of time in  excess
  of  that  authorized  pursuant  to  regulation  of the commissioner. The
  commissioner is hereby authorized to promulgate  rules  and  regulations
  governing  the  hours  of  service  of drivers of motor trucks and motor
  buses. Such rules and regulations shall be no less protective of  public
  safety  than  the  rules  and  regulations  promulgated  by  the federal
  government with respect to hours of labor of operation of  motor  trucks
  and motor buses, provided, however, that with regard to drivers of motor
  buses   operated   by   a   public  transportation  authority  operating
  exclusively within its jurisdictional area, the rules and regulations of
  the commissioner shall provide that no driver of such motor buses  shall
  drive  more than twelve hours following eight consecutive hours off duty
  and no driver of such motor buses  shall  drive  for  any  period  after
  having  been on duty for fifteen hours following eight consecutive hours
  off duty and every driver of  such  motor  buses  shall  have  at  least
  twenty-four  consecutive  hours  off  duty  in  every  period  of  seven
  consecutive days and in no event shall such a driver be on duty for more
  than seventy-five hours in any period of seven consecutive days.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 9-A - Hours of Labor of Operators of Motor Trucks and Motor Buses › 212 - Records.

§ 212. Records.  Every driver of a motor truck or motor bus shall keep
  and carry on the vehicle records showing the day and hour when  and  the
  place where he went and was released from duty, whether in this state or
  outside of this state. The commissioner shall prescribe the form of such
  records and may require such other information to be shown thereon as he
  shall  deem  advisable to insure the proper enforcement of this article.
  Such   records   shall   be   exhibited   to   the   commissioner,   his
  representatives, or to any peace officer, acting pursuant to his special
  duties  or  police officer who shall demand to see the same and shall be
  held available for further inspection for a period of sixty days  within
  the  state  of New York in an office designated by the owner. Failure to
  produce such records upon demand shall  be  presumptive  evidence  of  a
  violation  of  this  article  relating  to  keeping such records. In any
  prosecution for the violation of any of the provisions of  this  article
  such  records shall be prima facie evidence of the truth of the contents
  thereof.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 9-A - Hours of Labor of Operators of Motor Trucks and Motor Buses › 213 - Penalties; Enforcement.

§ 213. Penalties;  enforcement. Any person violating the provisions of
  this article or failing to keep or falsifying any records to be kept  in
  compliance   therewith,   or   any  corporation,  company,  association,
  joint-stock association, partnership, person or  any  officer  or  agent
  thereof,  who  shall  require  or  permit  any  person  to  violate  the
  provisions of this article or to  falsify  any  record  to  be  kept  in
  compliance  therewith shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by
  a fine of two hundred dollars, or  by  imprisonment  not  exceeding  six
  months,  or  both.  It  shall be the duty of the commissioner, all peace
  officers, acting pursuant  to  their  special  duties,  and  all  police
  officers,  and  they  are  hereby authorized, empowered, and required to
  enforce the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 9-A - Hours of Labor of Operators of Motor Trucks and Motor Buses › 214 - Exemptions.

§ 214. Exemptions.   a.   The   commissioner  shall  adopt  rules  and
regulations establishing when the provisions of this article  shall  not
apply,  which  rules  and  regulations  shall conform, as applicable, to
paragraphs (b) through (r) of section 395.1 of title 49 of the  code  of
federal  regulations  as  such  regulations  may be amended from time to
time.
b. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision a  of  this  section,
the  provisions  of  this  article shall not apply to the operation of a
motor truck in intrastate commerce owned by a  farmer  and  operated  by
himself  or  an  employee  when  used  in the hauling of farm, dairy, or
horticultural products  and  farm  supplies  for  himself  or  his  farm
neighbors to market, creamery, or place of storage, nor to the operation
of  tow  trucks  in  intrastate commerce while responding to requests to
provide roadside service or to remove wrecked,  disabled,  abandoned  or
illegally parked motor vehicles.
c.  The  provisions of this article shall not apply nor shall hours of
service accrue to a driver of a utility service vehicle. For purposes of
this article, utility service vehicle means any motor truck:
(1) Used in the furtherance of repairing,  maintaining,  or  operating
any  structures  or  any  other  physical  facilities  necessary for the
delivery  of  public  utility  services,  including  the  furnishing  of
electric,  gas  or  steam service, water, sanitary sewer, telephone, and
television cable or community antenna service;
(2) While engaged in any activity necessarily related to the  ultimate
delivery  of such public utility services to consumers, including travel
or movement  to,  from,  upon,  or  between  activity  sites  (including
occasional  travel  or movement outside the service area necessitated by
any utility emergency as determined by the utility provider); and
(3) Except for any occasional emergency use, operated primarily within
the service area of a utility's subscribers or consumers, without regard
to whether the vehicle is owned, leased, or rented by the utility.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 9-B - State Public Transportation Safety Board › 215 - Legislative Findings.

§ 215. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds and declares
  that  the  state  has  a  responsibility  to insure the safety of public
  transportation systems. Further, there exists a need for an independent,
  investigative and advisory body to examine the causes  of  accidents  on
  public  transportation  systems  and  make  recommendations  in order to
  prevent the occurrences of accidents  and  promote  the  safety  of  the
  public.  Therefore,  this  article  establishes  a public transportation
  safety board to provide this protection and insure the health and safety
  of the citizens of the state who use public transportation facilities.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 9-B - State Public Transportation Safety Board › 217 - Powers and Duties of the Board.

§ 217. Powers  and  duties  of  the  board.  The  board shall have the
  following powers and duties:
1.  To  investigate  accidents  occurring  on  or   involving   public
  transportation facilities or systems whether publicly or privately owned
  and report on the results of such investigations;
2.  To  establish within the board an accident reporting procedure and
  file for the purpose  of  accurate  analysis  of  public  transportation
  safety and to prepare an annual accident report for the governor and the
  legislature;
3.  To  review,  in connection with the investigation of accidents the
  safety, maintenance  and  training  programs  of  public  transportation
  facilities  or systems whether publicly or privately owned and recommend
  the establishment  of  equipment  and  safety  standards  in  connection
  therewith;
4.  To  adopt,  promulgate,  amend  and  rescind  suitable  rules  and
  regulations to carry out the provisions and purposes of this article  or
  to enforce any standards established hereunder;
5.  To hold hearings, issue reports, administer oaths or affirmations,
  examine any person under oath or  affirmation  and  to  issue  subpoenas
  requiring  the  attendance  and  giving  of  testimony  of witnesses and
  require the production  of  any  books,  papers,  documentary  or  other
  evidence.  The  powers  provided in this subdivision may be delegated by
  the board to any member of the board or department employee assigned  to
  the  board.  A subpoena issued under this subdivision shall be regulated
  by the civil practice law and rules;
6. To take or cause to be taken affidavits or  depositions  within  or
  without the state;
7.  To  enter upon any property where a public transportation accident
  has occurred, or where a vehicle, appurtenance or other item involved in
  any such accident is located, to fulfill  the  requirements  of  article
  nine-b of this chapter.
8.  To  render  each  year  to  the  governor and to the legislature a
  written report of its activities.
9. To enforce the requirements of section five thousand three  hundred
  twenty-nine  of  title  forty-nine of the United States Code, as amended
  from time to time, as it pertains to oversight of  rail  fixed  guideway
  public transportation systems.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 9-B - State Public Transportation Safety Board › 218 - Periodic Review of Safety Plans and Standards.

§ 218. Periodic  review  of  safety plans and standards. The board may
  review and recommend to the public transportation operators and carriers
  changes in safety standards, public transportation  operating  practices
  and  safety  plans.  Public  transportation operators and carriers shall
  review such recommendations and inform the board,  within  ninety  days,
  whether   or   not   the  recommendations  have  been  adopted.  If  the
  recommendations have not been adopted, the operator  or  carriers  shall
  set  forth  in  detail  the  reason  or  reasons  for  not  adopting the
  recommendations.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 9-B - State Public Transportation Safety Board › 219 - Assistance of Other Agencies.

§ 219. Assistance  of other agencies. 1. To effectuate the purposes of
  this article, the board may request and  receive  from  any  department,
  division,  board, bureau, commission or other agency of the state or any
  political subdivision thereof or any public authority  such  assistance,
  information and data as will enable the office properly to carry out its
  powers and duties hereunder.
2.  The  board  shall  cooperate,  consult  and  coordinate  with  the
  metropolitan transportation authority inspector general with  regard  to
  any   activity   concerning   the   operations   of   the   metropolitan
  transportation authority. With respect to any accident on the facilities
  of the metropolitan transportation authority, the primary responsibility
  for investigation shall be that of  the  board  which  shall  share  its
  findings   with  the  metropolitan  transportation  authority  inspector
  general.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 9-B - State Public Transportation Safety Board › 219-A - Studies; Surveys.

§ 219-a. Studies;  surveys.  In  the accomplishment of the purposes of
  this article, the board may undertake research and studies  through  its
  own  personnel  or  in  cooperation with any public or private agencies,
  including  educational,   safety   research   organizations,   colleges,
  universities, institutes or foundations.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 9-B - State Public Transportation Safety Board › 219-B - Grants or Gifts.

§ 219-b. Grants  or  gifts.  The  board,  with  the  approval  of  the
  governor, may accept as agent of the state any grant, including  federal
  grants,  or any gift for any of the purposes of this article. Any moneys
  so received may be expended by the board to effectuate  any  purpose  of
  this  article,  subject  to  the  same  limitations  as  to  approval of
  expenditures and audit as are prescribed for state  moneys  appropriated
  for the purposes of this article.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 9-B - State Public Transportation Safety Board › 219-C - Operating Authority.

§ 219-c. Operating  authority.  As  used  in  this  article,  the term
  "metropolitan transportation authority" shall mean the authority and its
  subsidiaries,  the   Long   Island   railroad,   metro-north   railroad,
  metropolitan  suburban  bus  authority  and  Staten Island rapid transit
  operating authority, of the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority,  and
  of the New York city transit authority and its subsidiary, the Manhattan
  and  Bronx surface transit operating authority, or any other agency that
  may come under the control of the authority, or within their custody  or
  control.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 10 - Grade Crossing Elimination › 220 - Short Title.

§ 220. Short title. This article shall be known as the "grade crossing
  elimination  act  of nineteen hundred seventy." However, sections of the
  transportation law falling within this article may be  cited  either  as
  sections of the transportation law or as sections of the "grade crossing
  elimination act of nineteen hundred seventy."
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 10 - Grade Crossing Elimination › 221 - Purpose.

§ 221. Purpose.  This  article  shall  continue  the implementation of
  section  fourteen  of  article  seven  of  the  constitution  and  shall
  supersede  chapter  six  hundred  seventy-seven  and chapter six hundred
  seventy-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred twenty-eight, and all acts
  supplementary thereto  and  amendatory  thereof,  known  as  the  "grade
  crossing  elimination  act,"  and chapter two hundred eighty-nine of the
  laws of nineteen hundred thirty-nine, and all acts supplementary thereto
  and amendatory thereof, known as the "grade crossing elimination act  of
  nineteen hundred thirty-nine."
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 10 - Grade Crossing Elimination › 226 - Persons Aggrieved; Right to Hearing; Rehearing; Appeals.

§ 226. Persons  aggrieved;  right to hearing; rehearing; appeals.  Any
  person aggrieved by any order or decision provided for in this  article,
  or  made  pursuant  thereto, and who was a party to such proceeding, may
  within thirty days after the service of such order  or  decision,  apply
  for  a  hearing  on the subject matter thereof or, in case a hearing was
  had prior to the making of any such order or decision, for  a  rehearing
  thereon  upon  notice  and such hearing or rehearing shall be granted or
  denied by the commissioner within thirty days after the  filing  of  the
  application  therefor  and  upon such hearing or rehearing such order or
  decision shall be set aside, modified or affirmed. Any person  aggrieved
  by  any order or decision provided for in this article, or made pursuant
  thereto, and who was a party to such proceeding, may within  sixty  days
  after  the  service  of  such  decision or order appeal therefrom to the
  appellate division of the supreme court in the department in which  such
  grade  crossing  is  located,  and  to the court of appeals, in the same
  manner and with like effect as is provided in the case of  appeals  from
  an order of the supreme court.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 10 - Grade Crossing Elimination › 227 - Federal Aid; Receipt and Expenditure.

§ 227. Federal aid; receipt and expenditure. The comptroller is hereby
  authorized  to  accept  from the federal government or any department or
  agency thereof any moneys in any way granted, allocated  or  apportioned
  for  the  purpose of highway-railroad grade crossing eliminations or the
  reconstruction  or  repair  of  existing   grade   crossing   separation
  structures and deposit them in accordance with existing federal or state
  law  or  rules  or  regulations applicable thereto and the same shall be
  available for the  purposes  granted,  allocated  or  apportioned.  Such
  moneys  shall  be  available  to reimburse the state for its expenses in
  connection  with  a  grade  crossing   elimination   project   including
  incidental improvements rendered necessary or desirable by such project.
  The  expense of net benefit to be borne by the railroad company shall be
  the  lesser  of  (1)  the  amount  of  net  benefit  determined  by  the
  commissioner  in  accordance with this act or (2) the difference between
  the cost of the project exclusive of  incidental  improvements  and  the
  amount   of   federal  aid  for  the  project  exclusive  of  incidental
  improvements. State moneys made available for federal aid grade crossing
  elimination projects may be used in the first instance to pay the  costs
  of said projects.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 10 - Grade Crossing Elimination › 229 - Pending Grade Crossing Elimination Proceedings.

§ 229. Pending  grade  crossing elimination proceedings. In connection
  with any proceedings for the elimination of a grade  crossing  in  which
  all  business  and  matters  have  not  been  completed  on March first,
  nineteen  hundred   seventy-one,   the   commissioner   may   make   any
  determinations;  redeterminations;  findings;  amended,  supplemental or
  revised findings; orders; or amended, supplemental or revised orders  as
  he  shall  deem  appropriate  or  necessary  to carry out the duties and
  responsibilities of his office and may conduct  such  business  hearings
  for such purposes as he shall deem appropriate.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 10-A - Implementation of Rail Preservation Bond Act of Nineteen Hundred Seventy-Four and the Energy Conservation Through Improved Transportation Bond Act Of › 230 - Expenditure of Monies.

§ 230. Expenditure  of  monies.  The monies received by the state from
  the sale of bonds pursuant to the rail preservation bond act of nineteen
  hundred  seventy-four  and  the  energy  conservation  through  improved
  transportation  bond  act  of  nineteen  hundred  seventy-nine  shall be
  expended pursuant to appropriation for any rail preservation project  or
  local street or highway project approved hereunder.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 10-A - Implementation of Rail Preservation Bond Act of Nineteen Hundred Seventy-Four and the Energy Conservation Through Improved Transportation Bond Act Of › 232 - State Assistance Application Procedure.

§ 232. State  assistance  application procedure. 1. A municipality may
  submit an application for  state  assistance  toward  the  cost  of  any
  municipal   rail  preservation  project  which  is  eligible  for  state
  assistance pursuant to this article to the commissioner in such form and
  containing such information as he may require.
2. A county highway superintendent,  or  the  county  official  having
  jurisdiction  over  the  county highway system for any county which does
  not have a county highway superintendent, or in the case of the city  of
  New  York,  the  city  commissioner  of  transportation,  may  submit an
  application for state assistance toward the cost of any local street  or
  highway  project which is eligible for state assistance pursuant to this
  article to the commissioner in such form and containing such information
  as he may require.
3. The commissioner shall review any such project application and  may
  approve,  disapprove  or recommend modifications thereto consistent with
  applicable law, criteria, standards or rules and regulations relative to
  such project.
4. Upon approval of a  project  application,  a  municipality,  county
  highway   superintendent,   county  official  or  city  commissioner  of
  transportation, as the case may be, may enter into a contract as further
  provided within this article with the commissioner for payment of  state
  assistance to be received pursuant to this article.
5.  In  connection  with  local  street or highway projects, the total
  funds made available as a result  of  the  energy  conservation  through
  improved  transportation bond act of nineteen hundred seventy-nine shall
  be  allocated  in  accordance  with   the   following   percentums:   a)
  thirty-eight  percentum  for  town roads; b) thirty percentum for county
  roads; c) eighteen percentum for city and village highways, streets  and
  roads,  outside of New York city; and d) fourteen percentum for highways
  and streets in New York city.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 10-A - Implementation of Rail Preservation Bond Act of Nineteen Hundred Seventy-Four and the Energy Conservation Through Improved Transportation Bond Act Of › 233 - Powers and Duties of the Commissioner.

§ 233. Powers  and  duties  of  the commissioner. In administering the
  provisions of this article, the commissioner:
1. shall make an itemized estimate of funds or appropriations required
  annually for inclusion in the executive budget;
2. shall, by April  first,  nineteen  hundred  eighty,  determine  and
  submit  to  the governor and legislature for approval the allocations of
  the funds made available as a result of the energy conservation  through
  improved  transportation  bond act of nineteen hundred seventy-nine on a
  county by county basis broken into categories (a), (b) and (c) specified
  in subdivision five of section two hundred thirty-two of  this  chapter.
  Once  such  allocations  have  been  approved by the governor and by the
  legislature by a concurrent resolution of such bodies  such  allocations
  shall  not  be  modified  except  by  an act of the legislature which is
  enacted into law by the  governor.  Such  allocations  shall  take  into
  consideration  the  miles of highway in each category in relationship to
  total number of miles of highway in the local street or highway  project
  program  and other similar factors utilized in the safer off system road
  program based on the most recent information and data available  to  the
  commissioner.
3.  may  in  the  name  of  the  state as further provided within this
  article contract to  make,  within  the  limitations  of  appropriations
  available therefor, a state grant for payment to a municipality, county,
  or  city  of  New  York  representing  the  state share of the cost of a
  project approved and to be undertaken pursuant  to  this  article.  Such
  contracts  shall be subject to the approval by the state comptroller and
  as to form by the attorney general.
4. shall approve vouchers for the payment of local assistance pursuant
  to an approved contract. All such payments shall be paid  on  audit  and
  warrant of the state comptroller.
5.  may  perform such other and further acts and promulgate such rules
  and regulations as may be necessary, proper or desirable  to  carry  out
  the provisions of this article.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 10-A - Implementation of Rail Preservation Bond Act of Nineteen Hundred Seventy-Four and the Energy Conservation Through Improved Transportation Bond Act Of › 234 - Powers and Duties of an Applicant.

§ 234. Powers  and duties of an applicant. An applicant shall have the
  power and authority to:
1. undertake and carry out any project for which state  assistance  is
  received  or  to  be  received pursuant to this article and maintain and
  operate such project;
2. expend money received from the state pursuant to this  article  for
  costs incurred in conjunction with the approved project;
3.  perform such other and further acts as may be necessary, proper or
  desirable to carry out a project or obligation, duty or function related
  thereto;
4. for local street or highway projects outside the city of New  York,
  determine,   subject   to   the   approval   of  the  commissioner,  the
  suballocations, of the allocation determined for such county pursuant to
  subdivision two of section two hundred thirty-three of this chapter that
  should be made available to the towns,  cities,  villages,  within  each
  county  and to the county itself. Such suballocation determination shall
  be based on information and data  furnished  each  such  county  by  the
  commissioner  for  such  purpose.  The applications for state assistance
  shall be made in accordance with  such  suballocations  and  within  the
  total allocation determined to be available to such county;
5.  enter  into  contracts  with the towns, cities and villages within
  such county with respect to undertaking local street or highway projects
  on the town highway, or city or village highway, street or road  systems
  respectively; and
6.  for local street or highway projects, to undertake the work of the
  project either with its own forces or by contract, however, whenever the
  estimate for the construction contract work exceeds three hundred  fifty
  thousand  dollars  such  work  must  be performed by contract let by the
  competitive bid process.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 10-A - Implementation of Rail Preservation Bond Act of Nineteen Hundred Seventy-Four and the Energy Conservation Through Improved Transportation Bond Act Of › 235 - Approval of Projects.

§ 235. Approval  of  projects. 1. Rail preservation or local street or
  highway projects shall be undertaken pursuant to this article only  with
  the  approval of the commissioner, and in the case of municipal projects
  for rail preservation, or local street or highway projects, pursuant  to
  an approved contract for state assistance.
2.  In  reviewing  rail  preservation projects, the commissioner shall
  give due consideration to:
a. the urgency of the need for preserving or  improving  commuter  and
  intercity rail passenger and rail freight services;
b.  the  age  and  condition  of the railroad capital facilities to be
  acquired, reconstructed or improved by the project;
c. the economic feasibility of maintaining or improving  commuter  and
  intercity  rail  passenger  or  rail freight services in relation to the
  project; and
d. whether the project is part of, or consistent with,  the  statewide
  comprehensive master plan for transportation.
3.  In  reviewing  local  street or highway projects, the commissioner
  shall give due consideration to:
a. the urgency of the need for preservation and  improving  the  local
  street,  highway  or  bridge  in order to make it more energy efficient,
  safer and economical to maintain and operate; and
b. whether the project is part of, or consistent with,  the  statewide
  comprehensive master plan for transportation.
4. With respect to any municipal rail preservation project, or a local
  street  or highway project, the state may finance the total cost thereof
  or such lesser amount as may be set forth in the appropriation or as may
  be established by the legislature by  legislative  act  or  by  the  the
  commissioner  pursuant  to  contract.  In  the  event  no local share is
  specified in the appropriation of funds for the local street or  highway
  projects  or  by  another  act  of the legislature, then the local share
  shall be determined by the commissioner on the same basis  and  criteria
  utilized for the safer off system road program.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 10-A - Implementation of Rail Preservation Bond Act of Nineteen Hundred Seventy-Four and the Energy Conservation Through Improved Transportation Bond Act Of › 236 - Contracts for Projects.

§ 236. Contracts for projects. 1. The commissioner, in the name of the
state,  may  enter  into  contracts with municipalities, counties or the
city of New York to  undertake  rail  preservation  projects,  or  local
street  or  highway  projects,  and any such municipality, county or the
city of New York may enter into a contract with  the  commissioner.  Any
such  contract  may include such provisions as may be agreed upon by the
parties  thereto,  and  shall  include,  in  substance,  the   following
provisions:
a.  an estimate of the reasonable cost of the project as determined by
the commissioner;
b. an agreement by the commissioner to pay to the municipality, county
or the city of New York during the progress of construction or following
completion of construction as may be agreed  upon  by  the  parties,  an
amount,  not  to  exceed  the  total  cost of the project or such lesser
amount as may have been established  pursuant  to  section  two  hundred
thirty-five;
c. an agreement by the municipality, county or city of New York;
(i)  to  proceed  expeditiously  with,  and  complete,  the project as
approved by the commissioner,
(ii) to apply  for  or  make  reasonable  efforts  to  secure  federal
assistance, if any, for the project,
(iii)  to  secure the approval of the commissioner before applying for
such federal assistance, in  order  to  maximize  the  amounts  of  such
assistance  received  or  to  be  received  for all projects in New York
state,
(iv) to provide for the municipality's, county's or city of New York's
share of the cost of the project, if any;
d. A provision that, in the event that federal  assistance  which  was
not  included  in the calculation of the state payment becomes available
to the municipality, county or city of New York the amount of the  state
payment  shall  be  recalculated  with  the  inclusion  of  such federal
assistance and the municipality, county or city of New York shall pay to
the state the amount by which the state payment  actually  made  exceeds
the state payment determined by the recalculation.
e.  In  connection  with  each  contract,  the commissioner shall keep
adequate records of the amount of the payment by the state  and  of  the
amount  of  federal  assistance,  if  any, received by the municipality,
county or city of New York.  Such  records  shall  be  retained  by  the
commissioner  and  shall  establish  the basis for recalculations of the
state payment as required herein.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 11 - Transfer of Functions, Employees and Records; Continuity of Authority › 240 - Transfer of Functions.

§ 240. Transfer  of  functions.  The functions and powers possessed by
  and the obligations and duties of the public service commission and  the
  department  of  public  service  pertaining  to the regulation of common
  carriers, bus  companies,  contract  carriers  of  passengers  by  motor
  vehicle  and  contract  carriers of property by motor vehicle, including
  such commission  and  department's  investigatory  and  punitive  powers
  relative  thereto,  and to its transportation division and the functions
  and  powers  possessed  by  and  the  obligations  and  duties  of  such
  commission   and  department  relating  to  grade  crossing  elimination
  projects and the jurisdiction of such  commission  and  department  over
  highway-railroad  grade crossings and separation structures delegated to
  either of them  by  the  railroad  law  or  any  other  law  are  hereby
  transferred to the commissioner and the department.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 11 - Transfer of Functions, Employees and Records; Continuity of Authority › 241 - Transfer of Employees.

§ 241. Transfer  of  employees.  Upon the transfer of functions to the
  department pursuant to this article, provision should be  made  for  the
  transfer  to  the  department  of  such  employees of the public service
  commission and the department of  public  service  who  are  engaged  in
  carrying  out  such  functions  as  the  chairman  of the public service
  commission may deem necessary for the exercise of the  functions  herein
  transferred  to  the  department.    Employees  so  transferred shall be
  transferred without  further  examination  or  qualification  and  shall
  retain  their  respective  civil service classifications and status. For
  the purpose of determining the employees holding permanent  appointments
  in  competitive  class positions to be transferred, such employees shall
  be selected within each  class  of  positions  in  the  order  of  their
  original  appointment,  with  due  regard  to the right of preference in
  retention of disabled and non-disabled veterans. Any such employee  who,
  at the time of such transfer, has a temporary or provisional appointment
  shall  be  transferred subject to the same right of removal, examination
  or termination as though such transfer  had  not  been  made.  Employees
  holding  permanent  appointments  in competitive class positions who are
  not transferred pursuant to this section shall have their names  entered
  upon  an  appropriate  preferred  list for reinstatement pursuant to the
  civil service law.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 11 - Transfer of Functions, Employees and Records; Continuity of Authority › 242 - Transfer of Records.

§ 242. Transfer  of  records.  The  public  service commission and the
  department of public service  shall  deliver  to  the  commissioner  all
  books,  papers,  records  and property of such commission and department
  pertaining to the functions transferred pursuant to this article.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 11 - Transfer of Functions, Employees and Records; Continuity of Authority › 243 - Continuity of Authority.

§ 243. Continuity  of  authority. For the purpose of succession to all
  functions, powers, duties and obligations transferred pursuant  to  this
  article,  the department shall constitute the continuation of the public
  service commission and the department  of  public  service,  and  not  a
  different agency or authority.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 11 - Transfer of Functions, Employees and Records; Continuity of Authority › 244 - Continuation of Rules and Regulations.

§ 244. Continuation   of   rules   and   regulations.  All  rules  and
  regulations, acts, determinations, orders and decisions  of  the  public
  service  commission  and the department of public service, pertaining to
  the functions transferred pursuant to this article, in force at the time
  of  such  transfer  shall  continue  in  force  and  effect  as   rules,
  regulations,   acts,   determinations,   orders  and  decisions  of  the
  department and the commissioner until duly modified or abrogated by  the
  commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 11 - Transfer of Functions, Employees and Records; Continuity of Authority › 245 - Completion of Unfinished Business.

§ 245. Completion of unfinished business. Any business or other matter
  undertaken  or  commenced  by  the  public  service  commission  or  the
  department of  public  service  pertaining  to  or  connected  with  the
  functions,  powers,  obligations and duties transferred pursuant to this
  article, and pending on the effective date thereof, may be conducted and
  completed by the commissioner in the same  manner  and  under  the  same
  terms  and  conditions  and  with  the  same  effect as if conducted and
  completed by the public service commission or the department  of  public
  service.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 11 - Transfer of Functions, Employees and Records; Continuity of Authority › 246 - Terms Occurring in Laws, Contracts or Other Documents.

§ 246. Terms   occurring   in  laws,  contracts  or  other  documents.
  Whenever the public service  commission  or  the  department  of  public
  service  is  referred  to or designated in any law, contract or document
  pertaining to the functions, powers, obligations and duties  transferred
  pursuant  to this article, such reference or designation shall be deemed
  to refer to the department or the commissioner, as the case may be.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 11 - Transfer of Functions, Employees and Records; Continuity of Authority › 248 - Pending Actions and Proceedings.

§ 248. Pending  actions  and  proceedings.  No  action  or  proceeding
  pending on March first,  nineteen  hundred  seventy-one  brought  by  or
  against  the  public  service  commission  or  the  department of public
  service, and pertaining to or  connected  with  the  functions,  powers,
  obligations  and  duties  transferred pursuant to this article, shall be
  affected by this article, but the same may be prosecuted or defended  in
  the name of the department or the commissioner.  In all such actions and
  proceedings, the department or the commissioner, upon application to the
  court, shall be substituted as a party.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 11 - Transfer of Functions, Employees and Records; Continuity of Authority › 249 - Transfer of Appropriations.

§ 249. Transfer    of    appropriations.    All    appropriations   or
  reappropriations for the functions herein transferred heretofore made to
  the public service commission or the department of  public  service,  or
  segregated  pursuant  to  law,  to the extent of remaining unexpended or
  unencumbered balances  thereof,  whether  allocated  or  unallocated  or
  whether  obligated  or  unobligated,  are hereby transferred to and made
  available for use  and  expenditure  by  the  department  for  the  same
  purposes  for  which originally appropriated or reappropriated and shall
  be payable on vouchers certified or  approved  by  the  commissioner  on
  audit  or  warrant  of  the  comptroller.  Payments  for liabilities for
  expenses of  personal  service,  maintenance  and  operation  heretofore
  incurred  by  the  public service commission or the department of public
  service in connection with the functions  herein  transferred,  and  for
  liabilities  incurred  and to be incurred in completing their affairs in
  relation to the functions transferred herein,  shall  also  be  made  on
  vouchers  or  certificates  approved  by  the  commissioner on audit and
  warrant of the comptroller.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 11 - Transfer of Functions, Employees and Records; Continuity of Authority › 250 - Opinions, Determinations, Decisions and Judgments.

§ 250. Opinions,   determinations,   decisions   and   judgments.  All
  opinions, determinations, decisions and judgments hitherto rendered in a
  court of competent jurisdiction in an action or proceeding in which  the
  public  service  commission  or department of public service was a party
  shall continue to be binding and effective with respect to  the  matters
  therein  determined  with the same force and effect as if the department
  of  transportation  or  commissioner  of  transportation  were  a  party
  therein.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 11 - Transfer of Functions, Employees and Records; Continuity of Authority › 251 - Codification of Changes.

§ 251. Codification  of  changes.  The  commissioner  shall prepare or
  cause to be prepared for the submission to a session of the  legislature
  a  codification of the laws relating to the functions, powers and duties
  of the public service commission or the department of public service  as
  amended,  repealed  or  modified and other acts related thereto and such
  other measures as may be appropriate to effectuate the purposes of  this
  article and such acts.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 12 - Laws Repealed; Transfer of Functions; Interim Functions; Time to Take Effect › 260 - Department of Public Works Abolished.

§ 260. Department  of public works abolished. The department of public
  works in the state government, created,  established  and  continued  by
  section  five  of the public works law, as last amended by chapter three
  hundred fifty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-one, is hereby
  abolished.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 12 - Laws Repealed; Transfer of Functions; Interim Functions; Time to Take Effect › 261 - Transfer of Functions.

§ 261. Transfer   of  functions.  All  of  the  functions  and  powers
  possessed by and all the obligations and duties  of  the  department  of
  public  works  and  the  superintendent  of  public  works, except those
  pertaining to the construction of public buildings,  and  flood  control
  and  shore  line and beach erosion control, transferred to the office of
  general services  in  the  executive  department  and  the  conservation
  department,  respectively,  are  hereby  transferred  and  assigned  to,
  assumed by and developed upon the department of transportation.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 12 - Laws Repealed; Transfer of Functions; Interim Functions; Time to Take Effect › 262 - Transfer of Employees.

§ 262. Transfer  of  employees.  Upon the transfer of functions to the
  department of transportation pursuant to this chapter,  provision  shall
  be  made  for  the  transfer to the department of transportation of such
  employees of the department of public works who are engaged in  carrying
  out  such  functions  as  the  commissioner  of  transportation may deem
  necessary for the  exercise  of  the  functions  of  the  transportation
  department.    Employees  so  transferred  shall  be transferred without
  further examination or qualification and shall retain  their  respective
  civil service classifications and status. For the purpose of determining
  the   employees  holding  permanent  appointment  in  competitive  class
  positions to be transferred, such employees  shall  be  selected  within
  each class of positions in the order of their original appointment, with
  due  regard  to  the  right  of  preference in retention of disabled and
  nondisabled veterans. Any  such  employee  who,  at  the  time  of  such
  transfer,   has   a   temporary  or  provisional  appointment  shall  be
  transferred subject  to  the  same  right  of  removal,  examination  or
  termination as though such transfer had not been made. Employees holding
  permanent  appointments  in  competitive  class  positions  who  are not
  transferred pursuant to this section shall have their names entered upon
  an appropriate preferred list for reinstatement pursuant  to  the  civil
  service law.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 12 - Laws Repealed; Transfer of Functions; Interim Functions; Time to Take Effect › 263 - Transfer of Records.

§ 263. Transfer  of  records. The superintendent of public works shall
  deliver to the commissioner of transportation all books, papers, records
  and property of the department of public works and the superintendent of
  public works pertaining to the functions herein transferred.