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2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 18 - Fences, Strays and Pounds › 320 - Duties of Fence Viewers as to Strays.

§  320.  Duties of fence viewers as to strays. The fence viewers shall
  view the premises where damages are claimed to have been done, and  they
  may  issue  subpoenas, examine witnesses and take any competent evidence
  of the facts and circumstances necessary to enable them to determine the
  matter submitted to them, and shall determine any dispute that may arise
  touching the sufficiency of any division fence around the premises where
  such damage was done, and from where and how the beasts  came  upon  the
  lands of the person claiming such damages and charges; if they determine
  that for any cause the claimants' lien is not enforceable, they shall so
  certify, and the owner of the beasts shall thereupon be entitled to them
  without paying any charges thereon.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 18 - Fences, Strays and Pounds › 321 - Foreclosure of Lien Upon Strays by Action.

§  321.  Foreclosure  of lien upon strays by action. When such lien is
  foreclosed by  action,  all  questions  relating  to  damages,  charges,
  sufficiency  of  fence, and from where and how such beasts came upon the
  lands of the person claiming such damages and charges  shall  be  proven
  upon  the trial of such action, and no certificate of fence viewers upon
  such questions shall then be necessary.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 18 - Fences, Strays and Pounds › 322 - Surplus Money Upon Sale of Strays.

§  322.  Surplus money upon sale of strays. If the owner of the beasts
  shall not appear and demand the residue of such moneys within  one  year
  after the sale he shall be thereafter precluded from recovering any part
  thereof,  and  the  same shall be paid by the officer making the sale to
  the supervisor of the town, or, in cities, to the treasurer,  and  their
  receipt  shall be a legal discharge to the keeper of such beasts and the
  officer selling the same. If the officer who shall have sold such beasts
  shall not, within thirty days after the expiration of the year, pay such
  moneys to the supervisor of the town, or, in cities, to the treasurer he
  shall forfeit to the town or city double the sum  so  remaining  in  his
  hands, together with the amount of such moneys.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 18 - Fences, Strays and Pounds › 323 - Damages From Other Personal Property.

§  323. Damages from other personal property. When any person shall be
  authorized to distrain inanimate goods  or  chattels  doing  damage,  or
  whenever  any  logs, timbers, boards or plank, in rafts or otherwise, or
  other personal property shall have drifted upon his lands, he  shall  be
  entitled  to  the  same  remedies  and shall proceed therein in the same
  manner and with the same powers  as  herein  provided  with  respect  to
  beasts  found doing damage, so far as such provisions are applicable. He
  must deliver his notice of  lien  to  the  town  clerk,  describing  the
  property,  within  thirty  days  after  it lodges upon his lands, and he
  shall keep the same in some convenient place without removal to a  pound
  until  the property is sold or reclaimed. The same officer shall conduct
  proceedings therein as in  proceedings  where  beasts  are  found  doing
  damage, and all proceeds of sale shall be, in like manner, paid over and
  applied,  subject  to  the  same penalties and liabilities, and with the
  same force and effect.  The  fee  of  the  town  clerk  for  filing  and
  recording  such  notices  of lien shall be one dollar and the charges of
  the land owner claiming such lien and delivering such notice to the town
  clerk, pursuant to this section, shall be at the rate of five cents  for
  each  such  stray, but shall in no event exceed the sum of fifty dollars
  upon any one lien.   Any lien for logs, timber,  boards  or  planks,  in
  rafts  or  otherwise,  filed  herein  may  be  discharged  in the manner
  provided in sections nineteen and twenty of the lien law, with reference
  to the discharge of mechanics' liens, so  far  as  such  provisions  are
  applicable.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 18 - Fences, Strays and Pounds › 324 - Penalty of Conversion of Floating Lumber.

§ 324. Penalty of conversion of floating lumber. Whoever shall convert
  to  his  own  use,  without  the consent of the owner thereof, any logs,
  timber, boards or plank, floating in any of the waters of this state, or
  lying on the banks or shores of any such waters, or on any island  where
  the  same  may  have  drifted,  shall, for every offense, forfeit to the
  owner of such logs, or other lumber,  three  times  the  value  thereof.
  Nothing  contained  in this section shall be construed to extend to that
  kind of lumber called driftwood.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 18 - Fences, Strays and Pounds › 325 - Application of Article.

§  325.  Application of article. The villages and cities of this state
  shall be considered towns for the purpose of  construing  provisions  of
  this article relating to strays; and the trustees of the village and the
  alderpersons,  council members or members of the legislative body of the
  city shall be fence viewers therein for such purposes.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 18 - Fences, Strays and Pounds › 326 - Erection and Discontinuance of Pounds.

§ 326. Erection and discontinuance of pounds. Whenever the electors of
  any  town  shall  determine  at a biennial town election to erect one or
  more pounds therein, and whenever a pound shall now be  erected  in  any
  town,  the  same  shall  be  kept  under  the  care  and  direction of a
  pound-master, to be appointed for that purpose. The electors of any town
  may, at a biennial town election, discontinue any pounds therein.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 18 - Fences, Strays and Pounds › 327 - Pound-Master's Fees.

§  327.  Pound-master's  fees.  The pound-masters shall be allowed the
  following fees for their services, to wit: For taking into the pound and
  discharging therefrom every horse, mule  and  head  of  cattle,  fifteen
  cents; for every other beast, ten cents.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 19 - Laws Repealed; Temporary Provisions and Saving Clause › 340 - Laws Repealed.

§  340.  Laws  repealed.  Chapter  sixty-three of the laws of nineteen
  hundred nine, entitled "An act relating to towns,  constituting  chapter
  sixty-two of the consolidated laws," and all acts amendatory thereof and
  supplemental  thereto, constituting the town law as heretofore in force,
  are hereby repealed, except as otherwise provided herein.
2023 New York Laws › TWN - Town › Article 19 - Laws Repealed; Temporary Provisions and Saving Clause › 342 - When to Take Effect.

§  342.  When  to  take effect. The provisions of sections one hundred
  eighty-six and three hundred forty-one of this chapter shall take effect
  June first, nineteen hundred thirty-three. The  provisions  of  sections
  one hundred ten to one hundred twenty-one, inclusive, of this chapter so
  far  as  the  same  pertain to the preparation of preliminary and annual
  estimates and public  hearings  thereon,  the  adoption  of  the  annual
  estimate, annual appropriations, the levy of taxes for the year nineteen
  hundred  thirty-four  and the issuance and sale of bonds or certificates
  of indebtedness, pursuant to section one hundred twenty-one, shall  take
  effect  August  fifteenth,  nineteen  hundred thirty-three in every town
  containing a population  of  ten  thousand  or  more  as  shown  by  the
  decennial  federal census of nineteen hundred thirty, excepting towns in
  the counties of Broome and Suffolk,  in  every  town  which  shall  have
  determined  by any method prescribed in subdivision one of section three
  hundred forty-one of this chapter that such town is to be in  the  first
  class,  excepting, however, towns in the county of Ontario and the towns
  to which the provisions of article six-a of the former town law repealed
  by this act, shall apply prior to  August  fifteenth,  nineteen  hundred
  thirty-three.  The  provisions  of  sections  one  hundred ninety to two
  hundred two, inclusive, and two hundred twenty to two hundred forty-six,
  inclusive, of this chapter shall take effect immediately. In  all  other
  respects  this chapter shall take effect January first, nineteen hundred
  thirty-four.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2 - Powers, Duties and Jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation › 10 - Declaration of Policy.

§ 10. Declaration of policy. It is hereby declared to be the policy of
  the  state  of New York that adequate, safe and efficient transportation
  facilities and services at reasonable cost to the people  are  essential
  to the economic growth of the state and the well-being of its people and
  that  the planning and development of such facilities and services shall
  be coordinated by a state  department  of  transportation  with  overall
  responsibility for balanced transportation policy and planning.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2 - Powers, Duties and Jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation › 11 - Department of Transportation; Commissioner.

§ 11. Department  of  transportation;  commissioner. There shall be in
  the state government a department of transportation.   The head  of  the
  department  shall  be  the  commissioner of transportation, who shall be
  appointed by the governor, by and with the advice  and  consent  of  the
  senate,  and  hold  office  until the end of the term of the governor by
  whom he was appointed and until  his  successor  is  appointed  and  has
  qualified.
The  commissioner  of  transportation  shall  have  sole charge of the
  administration of the department.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2 - Powers, Duties and Jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation › 12 - Offices of the Department.

§ 12. Offices   of   the  department.  The  principal  office  of  the
  department of transportation shall be in the county  of  Albany.  Branch
  offices  may  be  established  and  maintained by the department in such
  places as the commissioner may determine, and for  which  appropriations
  are made by the legislature.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2 - Powers, Duties and Jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation › 13 - Organization of Department; Officers and Employees.

§ 13. Organization  of  department;  officers  and employees. 1.   The
  commissioner may, from time  to  time,  create,  abolish,  transfer  and
  consolidate divisions, bureaus and other units within the department not
  expressly  established  by  law  as  he  may determine necessary for the
  efficient operation of the department, subject to the  approval  of  the
  director of the budget.
2.  The  commissioner may appoint such deputies, directors, assistants
  and other officers and employees as may be needed for the performance of
  his duties and may prescribe their  powers  and  duties  and  fix  their
  compensation  within  the  amounts  appropriated  therefor. Each deputy,
  director, assistant and other officers and employees shall be  a  person
  qualified  by  training and experience for the performance of the duties
  assigned to him. Subject to the provisions of the civil service law  and
  rules,  the  commissioner  may  appoint  such  other  employees  of  the
  department as may be necessary to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  this
  chapter.  He  may transfer officers or employees from their positions to
  other positions in the department, may consolidate  such  positions,  or
  may abolish such office or position.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2 - Powers, Duties and Jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation › 14-A - Preservation of Agricultural Lands, Public Park and Recreational Lands, Wildlife and Waterfowl Refuges and Historical Sites.

§ 14-a. Preservation   of   agricultural   lands,   public   park  and
  recreational lands, wildlife and waterfowl refuges and historical sites.
  The commissioner of transportation shall cooperate and consult with  the
  commissioners   of   agriculture  and  markets,  parks  and  recreation,
  environmental conservation and health in developing transportation plans
  and programs so that such  programs  include  measures  to  maintain  or
  enhance  the  desirable  natural  characteristics of the land traversed.
  Such cooperation and consultation shall be effected and  implemented  by
  memoranda  of  understanding  which  shall  be  entered into between the
  commissioner of transportation and  each  of  such  commissioners.  Such
  memoranda   of  understanding  shall  provide  for  review  of  proposed
  transportation projects by such commissioners at all stages of progress,
  including preliminary and final planning and  during  construction,  and
  for  the  cooperation  by  the department of transportation necessary to
  facilitate such review.  Such  memoranda  of  understanding  shall  also
  provide  that  the  commissioner  of  transportation shall implement any
  suggestion or recommendation made by any of such commissioners which  he
  deems  feasible  in  connection  with  the  preservation of agricultural
  lands, lands of  public  parks  and  recreational  areas,  wildlife  and
  waterfowl refuges and historical sites.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2 - Powers, Duties and Jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation › 14-B - Highway Safety Powers and Duties.

§ 14-b. Highway   safety   powers   and   duties.  The  department  of
  transportation shall have power to:
1. Advise and assist local  authorities  as  defined  in  section  one
  hundred  twenty-two  of  the  vehicle and traffic law with their traffic
  problems.
2. Maintain a continuous survey of traffic conditions  on  the  public
  highways of the state and recommend to the appropriate legislative body,
  department or commission, such changes in rules, orders, regulations and
  existing  law,  including measures for the relief of traffic congestion,
  such as the construction or reconstruction of highways  and  elimination
  of  grade  crossings,  as  the  commissioner  of transportation may deem
  advisable.
3. Cooperate with the agencies of this and other  states  and  of  the
  federal  government  which  are  connected with national defense, in the
  formulation and execution of plans for the rapid and safe movement  over
  highways  of  troops,  vehicles  of  a  military  nature,  and materials
  affecting the national defense.
4. Coordinate the activities of the  department  or  agencies  of  the
  state  government  in  a  manner which will best serve to effectuate any
  such plan for the rapid  and  safe  movement  of  troops,  vehicles  and
  materials as referred to in subdivision three of this section.
5.  Solicit  the  cooperation  of  officials  of the various political
  subdivisions of the state in the proper execution of plans.
6. Take an inventory, by counties, of the  trucks  and  buses  in  the
  state, publicly and privately owned, which would be available in case of
  emergency affecting the national defense.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2 - Powers, Duties and Jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation › 14-G - Intercity Bus Passenger Service Preservation.

§ 14-g. Intercity bus passenger service preservation. 1. Authorization
  is  hereby  given to the commissioner of transportation to contract with
  any person, firm, corporation or agency, including, but not limited  to,
  any  intercity  bus  company,  state agency, the federal government, any
  other state or agency or instrumentality thereof, any  public  authority
  of  this  state  or  any  other  state,  or any political subdivision or
  municipality of the state, for the purpose of providing, maintaining and
  improving intercity bus passenger service within New York state.
2. The commissioner may, subject to the concurrence of the director of
  the budget:
a. Enter into joint service agreements on behalf of the state with any
  intercity bus company, the federal government, any other state or agency
  or instrumentality thereof, any public authority of this  state  or  any
  other  state, or any political subdivision or municipality of the state,
  relating to  property,  buildings,  structures,  facilities,  equipment,
  services,  rates,  fares, allowances or charges, or rules or regulations
  pertaining thereto, for or in connection with the provision of intercity
  bus passenger services, or  such  local  or  commuter  services  as  are
  provided by an intercity bus company.
b.  Utilize  federal moneys available or which may become available to
  the state for  the  purpose  of  effectuating  the  provisions  of  this
  section,  and  enter  into  any  necessary  agreements  required to meet
  federal regulations, criteria and standards in connection therein.
c. Do all things necessary, convenient or desirable to carry  out  the
  purposes of this section.
3. For the purposes of this section, the term "intercity bus passenger
  service"  shall  mean transportation provided to the public on a regular
  and continuing basis by a person, firm,  or  corporation  authorized  to
  transport  passengers  in  interstate  commerce  by  the  United  States
  department of transportation or in  intrastate  commerce  by  the  state
  department  of  transportation  that  is  primarily  intended to satisfy
  longer  distance  travel  demand  between  cities,  and   villages   and
  unincorporated  urban places that have a population of two thousand five
  hundred or more. Such term does not include services that are  primarily
  local or commuter oriented in nature.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2 - Powers, Duties and Jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation › 14-I - Long Island Expressway; Design and Construction.

§ 14-i. Long  Island  expressway;  design  and  construction.   1. The
  commissioner shall prepare an  environmental  impact  statement  on  the
  project  to add travel lanes to the Long Island expressway between exits
  forty-nine and fifty-seven in accordance with the provisions of  article
  eight of the environmental conservation law.
2. The commissioner shall prepare an environmental impact statement on
  projects  to  add  travel lanes to the Long Island expressway from exits
  thirty to sixty-four in accordance with the provisions of article  eight
  of the environmental conservation law.
3.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law to the contrary, a
  project to add travel lanes to the Long Island expressway between  exits
  forty-nine  and  fifty-seven shall, for the purposes of this section, be
  deemed to have independent  utility  and  not  be  deemed  part  of  any
  long-range plan and other potential highway improvement projects on Long
  Island  are not to be deemed likely to be undertaken as a result thereof
  or to be dependent thereon.
4. a. The design for the project to  add  travel  lanes  to  the  Long
  Island  expressway  between  exits  forty-nine  and  fifty-seven,  shall
  commence forthwith.  Such  design  shall  proceed  concurrent  with  the
  environmental  review  process  required  by  subdivision  one  of  this
  section, and may, to the extent necessary, focus on a design alternative
  or alternatives. Preparation of a design shall not be a commitment to an
  action by the department prior to the completion  of  the  environmental
  review process.
b. The department shall not commence construction until the department
  has  considered  the  final  environmental  impact  statement  and  made
  findings pursuant to subdivision one of this section.
c. The preparation of a design or designs shall not be deemed to  have
  prejudiced   any  decision-making  pursuant  to  article  eight  of  the
  environmental conservation law.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2 - Powers, Duties and Jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation › 15 - Comprehensive Statewide Master Plan for Transportation.

§ 15. Comprehensive  statewide  master plan for transportation. 1. The
department shall formulate and from time to  time  revise  a  long-range
comprehensive  statewide  master  plan  for the balanced development and
coordination of  adequate,  safe  and  efficient  commuter  and  general
transportation  facilities  and services in the state at reasonable cost
to the people, including, but not limited to, highways,  rapid  transit,
railroad,  omnibus,  marine and other mass transportation facilities and
services, and aviation and  airport  facilities  and  services,  whether
publicly or privately owned, developed, operated or maintained.
2.  The  department  shall  submit  such  plan  to  the  governor, the
temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the  assembly  and  to
the  department  of state on or before September first, nineteen hundred
sixty-eight, and thereafter shall submit appropriate revisions  of  such
plan to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker
of the assembly and to the department of state from time to time as such
revisions  are  made. The department of state shall review such plan and
such revisions and shall submit a report  thereon,  together  with  such
recommendations  as  it  may  deem  appropriate,  to  the  governor, the
temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly.  Such
plan  and  such  revisions  shall  become effective upon approval by the
governor and shall serve  thereafter  as  a  guide  to  the  public  and
publicly  assisted development of transportation facilities and services
in the state.
3. In formulating such plan and any such revisions, the department:
a. shall conduct one or more public hearings;
b. may consult with and cooperate with (i)  officials  of  departments
and  agencies of the state having duties and responsibilities concerning
transportation;
(ii) officials and representatives of public corporations  as  defined
in article one, section three of the general corporation law;
(iii)  officials  and  representatives  of  the federal government, of
neighboring states and of  interstate  agencies  on  problems  affecting
transportation in this state;
(iv)  officials  and  representatives  of  carriers and transportation
facilities and systems in the state; and
(v) persons, organizations and groups utilizing, served by, interested
in or concerned with transportation facilities and systems in the state;
c. 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 and data  as
may   be   necessary   to   enable  the  department  to  carry  out  its
responsibilities under this section; and
d. may make use of and  incorporate  in  the  department's  plan,  any
recognized long-range regional plan for transportation, survey or report
developed by any public or private agency.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2 - Powers, Duties and Jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation › 16 - Delegation of Powers and Duties.

§ 16. Delegation  of  powers  and  duties.  The  commissioner  may, by
  official order filed with the department of transportation, delegate any
  of his powers to or direct any of his duties  to  be  performed  by  any
  deputy, director, assistant, officer or employee of such department.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2 - Powers, Duties and Jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation › 17-A - Reports of Regional Transportation Authorities; Certain Cases.

§ 17-a. Reports of regional transportation authorities; certain cases.
  1.  Each regional transportation authority shall submit to the governor,
  the commissioner, the chairman and ranking minority member of the senate
  finance committee, and the chairman and ranking minority member  of  the
  assembly ways and means committee annually, not later than the first day
  of  October  in  a  manner to be prescribed by the state director of the
  budget, information on  operations  and  capital  construction,  setting
  forth  the  estimated receipts and expenditures for its next fiscal year
  and its current fiscal year.
2. In addition to any report  required  pursuant  to  subdivision  one
  hereof,  each  regional  transportation  authority  shall  report to the
  commissioner concerning capital improvement projects in accordance  with
  the  provisions  of  section  one  hundred  nineteen-s  of  the  general
  municipal law any inconsistent provision of law notwithstanding.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2 - Powers, Duties and Jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation › 17-B - Public Transportation Safety Plans; Filing.

§ 17-b. Public     transportation    safety    plans;    filing.    1.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision eight  of  section  twelve
  hundred  sixty-six  and  subdivision  seven  of  section  twelve hundred
  ninety-nine-f of the public authorities law or of subdivision  seventeen
  of  section  one hundred forty-two of this chapter, every transportation
  authority and every other  public  transportation  operator  or  carrier
  receiving  mass  transportation operating assistance pursuant to section
  eighteen-b of this  chapter  either  directly  from  the  department  of
  transportation  or  through  a  county  or municipality pursuant to said
  section, shall prepare and publicize a plan for  transportation  safety,
  including but not limited to equipment maintenance procedures, personnel
  safety  training  programs, accident reporting systems, passenger safety
  practices and the persons responsible for  the  implementation  of  such
  practices   and   programs.  Every  authority  and  every  other  public
  transportation operator or carrier required herein to file such  a  plan
  shall  review such plan biennially and amend such plan if amendments are
  necessary.
2. A  plan  and  any  amendment  thereto,  prepared  pursuant  to  the
  provisions  of  this  section  shall be filed with the department at its
  Albany office. The commissioner, in consultation with the  state  public
  transportation safety board shall examine the plan and determine whether
  the  same is satisfactory and feasible. The plan shall be made available
  to any and all persons, corporations, departments and agencies necessary
  to enable timely review and solicitation of comments.
3. If within one hundred eighty days  of  receipt  of  notice  of  the
  provisions  of  this  section  from the commissioner and every two years
  thereafter, any transportation authority or system shall fail to file  a
  plan as required by this section or shall file a plan or amendment which
  the  commissioner  determines  in  consultation  with  the  state public
  transportation safety board, is unsatisfactory and shall fail to file  a
  substitute plan or amendment within ninety days of the sending of notice
  of   such  determination,  the  commissioner  shall  be  authorized  and
  empowered to withhold from such authority or system payment of  any  and
  all  state  moneys  otherwise  payable  to  such  authority or system as
  operating assistance pursuant to section eighteen-b of this  chapter  in
  the next occurring quarter of the state fiscal year.
4.  For  purposes  of  this  section the term transportation authority
  shall be deemed to mean and include  every  public  benefit  corporation
  constituting  a transportation authority which provides or contracts for
  the provision of mass transportation services or any subsidiary thereof.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2 - Powers, Duties and Jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation › 20 - Nighttime Work on Major Capital Construction Projects on Highways, Expressways and Parkways.

§ 20. Nighttime   work  on  major  capital  construction  projects  on
  highways, expressways and parkways. 1. On  every  major  limited  access
  highway,  expressway  and  parkway  capital  construction  project to be
  initiated by the department in regions ten and eleven on and after April
  first, nineteen hundred ninety-six, with a cost of more than two million
  dollars in region ten, and with a cost of more than five million dollars
  in region eleven the department shall, consider, and where  feasible  in
  the  department's  judgment,  insure  that  such  construction  work  is
  performed, no earlier than eight p.m. nor later than six  a.m.  For  the
  purposes  of  determining whether to utilize nighttime construction, the
  department  should  review  the  following:  existing  traffic  volumes,
  congestion,  traffic control measures and motorist safety; project cost,
  project quality, inspection obligations, highway user  costs,  workforce
  availability  and  materials  availability; workzone lighting and worker
  safety;  and  other  factors  the  department  deems  necessary  in  the
  consideration of nighttime construction. The department may consider any
  recommendations   and/or   comments  submitted  from  regional  planning
  organizations,  citizens  advisory  councils  or  metropolitan  planning
  organizations  regarding  nighttime  construction.  The department shall
  prepare a written report of its analysis of each  such  project  setting
  forth  such decisions and the reasons therefor, and such report shall be
  available to the public.
2. Beginning on January thirty-first,  nineteen  hundred  ninety-seven
  and  every two years thereafter, the department shall submit a report on
  the status of nighttime  construction  projects  in  the  state  to  the
  governor,  the  temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the
  assembly, the minority leader of the senate and the minority  leader  of
  the  assembly.  Such  report  shall  include  but  not  be limited to: a
  description  of  each  project  in  which  nighttime  construction   was
  authorized;  the  success  or failure in the department's opinion of the
  department's  efforts  to  reduce  traffic  congestion  using  nighttime
  construction;  a general comparison of project quality and overall costs
  against similar daytime construction projects; and the safety record for
  nighttime construction projects.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2 - Powers, Duties and Jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation › 22 - Work Zone Safety and Enforcement.

§  22.  Work  zone  safety  and  enforcement. The department shall, in
  cooperation with the superintendent of state police, the commissioner of
  motor vehicles, the chairman of the New York  state  thruway  authority,
  local  law  enforcement agencies and representatives for contractors and
  laborers, develop and implement rules and regulations for the  increased
  safety  of  work  zones.  Such  rules and regulations shall include, but
  shall not be limited to, a police presence  at  all  major  active  work
  zones as defined by rules and regulations set forth by the commissioner,
  the  use  of radar speed display signs at all major active work zones as
  defined by rules and regulations set forth by the  commissioner,  and  a
  system  for  reviewing  work  zone  safety and design for all work zones
  under the jurisdiction of the department.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-A - The Interstate Bridge Commission › 25 - Interstate Bridge Commission.

§ 25. Interstate bridge commission. The commissioner of transportation
  or  his  duly  authorized representative shall constitute the interstate
  bridge commission.  Such commission shall, together with a similar board
  or commission from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, constitute a  joint
  commission to acquire the rights, franchises and property of the several
  bridge  corporations, municipal corporations, companies, partnerships or
  individuals owning or operating toll bridges and including the bridge at
  Pond Eddy in the town of Lumberland, Sullivan county, owned by said town
  across the Delaware  river  between  the  state  of  New  York  and  the
  commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania,  except  such  as  are owned by steam or
  electric railroads or railways and  used  exclusively  for  railroad  or
  railway  purposes. Such acquisition shall be either by purchase or to be
  had and effected by this state  and  the  commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania
  under  and  by virtue of their respective rights of eminent domain, this
  state to pay one-half of the cost of the said bridges  and  one-half  of
  the  cost  of acquiring them, and the other half of the cost of the said
  bridges and one-half of the cost of acquiring them to  be  paid  by  the
  commonwealth  of Pennsylvania, or in lieu thereof, in proportion between
  the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the  counties  and  municipalities
  thereof as the latter state may by appropriate legislation determine.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-A - The Interstate Bridge Commission › 27 - Power to Sell and Lease Property; Disposition of Proceeds.

§ 27. Power  to  sell  and  lease  property;  disposition of proceeds.
Provided that concurrent legislation for the same purpose be enacted  by
the  commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania, the said joint commission be and is
hereby authorized and empowered as follows:
(a) To sell and dispose of such real and personal property  in  either
Pennsylvania  or  New York as is, in its judgment, not necessary for the
proper care, maintenance and operation of such bridges as  are,  or  may
hereafter  come,  under  its  control and jurisdiction for such price or
prices and under such conditions as such commission may deem proper  and
reasonable.
(b)  To  lease real estate owned by it, and which, in its judgment, is
not necessary for the maintenance and operation of the bridges under its
control and jurisdiction,  and  to  grant  licenses  to  public  utility
companies  for  the occupation of parts of bridges and other real estate
now or hereafter under the control and jurisdiction of said  commission,
upon  such  terms and conditions, and for such rentals and fees, as are,
in the opinion of the commission, proper and reasonable.
(c) To pay all moneys paid to it, in accordance with the provisions of
this section, as follows: one-half thereof shall be paid unto the  state
of  New  York,  and  the  remaining  half thereof shall be paid unto the
commonwealth of Pennsylvania, such payment to the state of New  York  to
be  deposited  in  the state treasury to the credit of the general fund;
provided, however, that whenever the real or  personal  property,  which
the  commission  may desire to sell, has been acquired or secured at the
sole cost and expense of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania or  the  state
of  New  York, the entire net proceeds of such sale shall be paid to the
state which has borne the cost of acquisition of such property.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-B - Urban Transportation › 30 - Urban Transportation Planning.

§ 30. Urban  transportation  planning.   Notwithstanding section seven
  hundred  thirty-four  of  the  executive  law  or  any  other  law,  the
  commissioner  shall  have  power to sponsor, conduct and undertake urban
  transportation studies and to act  as  the  state  planning  agency  for
  metropolitan or regional urban transportation planning and for state and
  interstate  comprehensive urban transportation planning and for research
  and  coordination  activity  related  thereto  in  connection  with  the
  provisions  of  and  for the purposes set forth in section seven hundred
  one of the federal  housing  act  of  nineteen  hundred  fifty-four,  as
  amended,  when  such  studies  and  activity  relate  primarily  to  the
  development of a transportation plan. In  exercising  his  powers  under
  this  section  the  commissioner  may  act  jointly  with  and otherwise
  cooperate with any state office or agency, and in order to carry out the
  purposes of this section the commissioner may enter  into  contracts  or
  agreements  with  any  person, firm, corporation or governmental agency.
  The commissioner may act as  agent  for  or  enter  into  contracts  and
  otherwise  cooperate  with the federal government in connection with the
  provisions of section seven hundred one of the housing act  of  nineteen
  hundred  fifty-four, as amended, to the extent that such section relates
  to assistance of  urban  transportation  planning,  and  as  such  agent
  administer   any   grant   or   grants   for  the  assistance  of  urban
  transportation planning to the state or through the state to  its  local
  governing  bodies  and  to  regional and metropolitan planning agencies,
  complying  with  the  provisions  of  such  grants  or  advances.    The
  department  of  taxation  and finance is hereby designated to accept and
  receive all grants or advances  from  the  federal  government  for  the
  purpose  of  this  section. All monies so accepted and received shall be
  deposited by the department of taxation and finance in  a  special  fund
  for  use  exclusively for the purposes for which such grants or advances
  were made. Payment from the said fund  shall  be  made  upon  audit  and
  warrant  of  the comptroller upon vouchers approved by the commissioner.
  The commissioner is hereby  authorized  to  present  any  claim  to  the
  federal government or any agency or official thereof with respect to the
  funds  made  available  for  the  purposes  of  this section pursuant to
  section seven hundred  one  of  the  housing  act  of  nineteen  hundred
  fifty-four, as amended.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-B - Urban Transportation › 31-A - Purchase Through the State Division of Standards and Purchase in the Office of General Services by Certain Not-for-Profit Corporations.

§ 31-a. Purchase  through the state division of standards and purchase
  in  the  office  of   general   services   by   certain   not-for-profit
  corporations.  A  corporation,  incorporated  under  the  not-for-profit
  corporation law of the state of New York and  approved  by  the  federal
  government  as  a  recipient  of  federal  funds  for the acquisition of
  equipment to provide  transportation  services  to  the  elderly  and/or
  handicapped,  may  make  purchases,  upon  the  written  approval of the
  department of transportation, of special vehicles and/or radio equipment
  pursuant to the  terms  of  contracts  let  by  the  state  division  of
  standards and purchase in the office of general services subject to such
  rules  as  may  be established from time to time pursuant to section one
  hundred sixty-three  of  the  state  finance  law  which  may  establish
  limitations   with   respect   to  commodities  and  impose  such  other
  appropriate conditions  upon  purchasing  as  deemed  necessary  by  the
  commissioner  of  general  services  in order to protect the state's own
  purchasing interests; provided that each such purchase shall have a cost
  of five hundred dollars or more and that said corporation  shall  accept
  sole responsibility for any payment of such cost due the vendor.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-C - Niagara Thruway Toll Removal Fund › 33 - Purposes of Fund.

§ 33. Purposes of fund.  The purposes of this fund shall be to provide
  a  means  for elimination of existing tolls, except bridge tolls, on the
  Niagara section of the Governor  Thomas  E.  Dewey  Thruway  within  the
  context  of protection of the rights of the bond holders of the New York
  State Thruway Authority.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-C - Niagara Thruway Toll Removal Fund › 34 - General Powers and Duties of the Fund.

§ 34. General  powers and duties of the fund.  The fund shall have the
  following powers in addition to those specifically  conferred  elsewhere
  in this article:
1. To sue and be sued;
2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure;
3.  To  make  and  alter  by-laws  for  its  organization and internal
  management;
4. With the approval of the comptroller,  to  prescribe  a  system  of
  accounts;
5.  To  make  rules  and  regulations  governing  the  exercise of its
  corporate powers and the fulfillment of  its  corporate  purposes  under
  this  article,  which  rules  and  regulations  shall  be filed with the
  secretary of state in the manner provided by section one hundred two  of
  the executive law;
6.  To  make  and  execute  contracts, lease agreements, and all other
  instruments necessary or convenient for the exercise  of  its  corporate
  powers and the fulfillment of its corporate purposes under this article;
7.  To  do any and all things necessary or convenient to carry out its
  corporate purposes and exercise the powers given and granted  to  it  in
  this article.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-C - Niagara Thruway Toll Removal Fund › 35 - Resources of Fund.

§ 35. Resources  of fund. 1. (a) There shall be paid into the fund any
and all moneys received by the state  from  the  federal  government  in
payment  of  its  share,  pursuant to the applicable provisions of title
twenty-three, United States Code, of the cost of  construction  of  said
section  as  it  exists  on  the  sixth  day  of  July, nineteen hundred
sixty-six.
(b) The sum of two million five hundred thousand dollars ($2,500,000),
or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby  appropriated  in  the
first  instance  out  of any moneys in the state treasury in the general
fund  to  the  credit  of  the  state  purposes  fund,   not   otherwise
appropriated,  to the Niagara thruway toll removal fund for the purposes
of this article. No part of  the  appropriation  hereby  made  shall  be
available  until  a  certificate  of approval of availability shall have
been issued by the director of the budget and a copy of such certificate
filed with the state comptroller, the chairman  of  the  senate  finance
committee  and  the  chairman  of the assembly ways and means committee.
Such certificate may be amended from time to time by the director of the
budget and a copy of each such amendment shall be filed with  the  state
comptroller,  the  chairman  of  the  senate  finance  committee and the
chairman of the assembly ways and means committee.
2. The fund shall pay over annually from moneys made available  to  it
from  any source to the New York state thruway authority an amount equal
to an amount sufficient to amortize that portion of the debt service  of
the   authority  allocable  to  the  Niagara  section  of  said  thruway
authority; provided, however, an agreement shall be entered into between
the fund, the commissioner of transportation, the thruway authority  and
the   bureau  of  public  roads  of  the  United  States  department  of
transportation providing: for the aforesaid annual payments by the  fund
to  the thruway authority; that the federal government make the payments
provided under paragraph (a) of subdivision one of  this  section;  that
such tolls shall be removed as of the time of the first of such payments
to the thruway authority; that such tolls shall not be collected so long
as such annual payments are made; and further that the thruway authority
shall  operate  and  maintain  such section in the same manner as on the
sixth day of July, nineteen hundred sixty-six.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-C - Niagara Thruway Toll Removal Fund › 36 - Article Not Affected if in Part Unconstitutional or Ineffective.

§ 36. Article not affected if in part unconstitutional or ineffective.
  If any section, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or provision of
  this  article shall be unconstitutional or be ineffective in whole or in
  part, to the extent that it is not unconstitutional or  ineffective,  it
  shall   be  valid  or  effective  and  no  other  section,  subdivision,
  paragraph, sentence, clause or provision shall  on  account  thereof  be
  deemed invalid or ineffective.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-C - Niagara Thruway Toll Removal Fund › 37 - Inconsistent Provisions of Other Acts Superseded.

§ 37. Inconsistent provisions of other acts superseded. Insofar as the
  provisions  of  this article are inconsistent with the provisions of any
  other act, general or special, the provisions of this article  shall  be
  controlling.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 42 - Scope of Jurisdiction.

§ 42. Scope of jurisdiction. The territorial jurisdiction of the Utica
  transit  authority  shall  be coterminous with the territorial limits of
  the City of Utica and of the areas the Utica transit commission  is  now
  serving.  The  Utica  transit  authority  may  provide  its  services or
  facilities to any additional areas or areas, outside of its  territorial
  jurisdiction,  in  which  it  is  franchised,  licensed,  authorized  or
  permitted to provide such services or facilities by a local  legislative
  body or governmental regulatory agency.