New York S 6256: Authorizes county highway superintendents to rent road machinery from any city, town or village and authorizes town highway superintendents to contract for the use of town machinery, tools and equipment

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S06256 Summary:

BILL NOS06256 

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SAME ASSAME AS A03111

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SPONSORSKOUFIS

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COSPNSRHELMING

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§117 & 142-d, Hway L

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Authorizes county highway superintendents to rent road machinery from any city, town or village; authorizes town highway superintendents to contract for the use of certain services and town machinery, tools and equipment with another municipality, district corporation, school district, community college or any unit of the state university.

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BILL NOS06256 

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03/07/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

03/18/20251ST REPORT CAL.582

03/19/20252ND REPORT CAL.

03/20/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

04/30/2025PASSED SENATE

04/30/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

04/30/2025referred to transportation

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

05/05/20261ST REPORT CAL.940

05/06/20262ND REPORT CAL.

05/07/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

05/29/2026PASSED SENATE

05/29/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

05/29/2026referred to transportation

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6256

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 7, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

 AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to authorizing county high-
 way superintendents to rent road machinery from any city, town,
 village, or another county and authorizing the town highway super-
 intendent to contract with another municipality, district corporation,
 school district, community college or any unit of the state university
 to provide certain services and the use of town machinery, tools and
 equipment

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

 1 Section 1. Section 117 of the highway law, as amended by chapter 542
 2 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 117. Construction and reconstruction of county roads. Construction
 4 or reconstruction of such roads, including necessary grade and culvert
 5 work, and any plans and specifications therefor, shall conform to an
 6 outline or general plan of the work, and such construction or recon-
 7 struction must be done under the immediate direct supervision of the
 8 county superintendent or a competent [foreman] foreperson designated by
 9 [him] such county superintendent. All or any part of such construction
 10 or reconstruction may be done by contract or by direct employment of
 11 labor and purchase of material, or both. The machinery needed for work
 12 done under this article, unless furnished by the contractor, shall be
 13 provided as follows:
 14 The county superintendent may rent road machinery from any person,
 15 company, corporation, or from any city, town or towns [in the county],
 16 village, or from any other county, and such rental shall be payable from
 17 the county road fund; or [he] they may use road building machinery,
 18 equipment, tools and implements purchased with county moneys, and when-
 19 ever used for the purpose of this article, a charge therefor, in the
 20 nature of rental, shall be payable from the county road fund on itemized

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06265-01-5

 S. 6256 2

 1 vouchers certified by the county superintendent showing where the
 2 machinery was used, together with the amount chargeable to each appro-
 3 priation or construction project. The provisions of subdivision three of
 4 section one hundred ninety-five, and of subdivisions four, five and six
 5 of section one hundred ninety-four of this chapter shall apply to work
 6 carried on pursuant to the provisions of this article.
 7 § 2. Section 142-d of the highway law, as amended by chapter 347 of
 8 the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows:
 9 § 142-d. Rental or hiring of town highway machinery, tools or equip-
 10 ment. [Except as otherwise provided in section one hundred forty-two-c
 11 of this chapter with r