New York S 3403: Relates to liability of the state for damages caused by reported defects and potholes

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S03403 Summary:

BILL NOS03403 

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SAME ASSAME AS A11009

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SPONSORCOMRIE

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COSPNSRHARCKHAM, MAYER

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §58, Hway L; amd §14, Transp L

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Relates to liability of the state for damages caused by reported defects and potholes if the report was made fourteen days or more before the damage occurred; establishes an interactive website for reporting defects and potholes on the state highway system and thruway.

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BILL NOS03403 

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01/27/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3403

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 27, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, HARCKHAM, MAYER -- read twice and ordered
 printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Trans-
 portation

 AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to liability of the state
 for damages caused by reported defects and potholes; and to amend the
 transportation law, in relation to establishing an interactive website
 for reporting defects and potholes on the state highway system and
 thruway

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 58 of the highway law, as amended by chapter 1110
 2 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 58. Liability of state for damages. The state shall not be liable
 4 for damages suffered by any person from defects in state highways
 5 between the sixteenth day of November and the last day of April except
 6 when the defect found to cause the damages was reported by telephone or
 7 by an online report submitted to the telephone number or website desig-
 8 nated by the department to receive such reports and fourteen days have
 9 elapsed from the date the initial report was submitted and the defect
 10 was not repaired and, except between the first day of May and the
 11 fifteenth day of November on such highways as are maintained by the
 12 state under such system as the commissioner of transportation may adopt
 13 pursuant to section twelve, but the liability for such damages shall
 14 otherwise remain as now provided by law, notwithstanding the
 15 construction or improvement and maintenance of such highways by the
 16 state under this chapter; but nothing herein contained shall be
 17 construed to impose on the state any liability for defects in bridges
 18 over which the state has no control. Within the limits of incorporated
 19 villages the state shall maintain a width of pavement equal to the width
 20 of pavement constructed or improved at the expense of the state, if a
 21 state highway, the location of the state's portion of such roadway with-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05200-01-5

 S. 3403 2

 1 in said incorporated limits to be determined by the center line of the
 2 roadway as shown on the plans on file with the department of transporta-
 3 tion and the state shall be liable for damages to persons or property
 4 only when such damage shall occur as a result of the defective condition
 5 of the portion of improved highway as above described.
 6 § 2. Section 14 of the transportation law is amended by adding a new
 7 subdivision 37 to read as follows:
 8 37. The commissioner shall establish an interactive website by which
 9 persons may report the locations of defects and potholes on the state
 10 highway system and the New York state thruway and receive, at such
 11 person's request, notification when repairs to the reported defect or
 12 pothole have been completed. The commissioner shall also post the
 13 locations of each reported defect or pothole on such interactive website
 14 until such time as such defect or pothole is repaired.
 15 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 16 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
 17 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 18 tation of this act on its effective