New York A 9141: Relates to the maintenance of certain sidewalks within a town

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A09141 Summary:

BILL NOA09141 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORLavine

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§200-a & 130, Town L

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Provides that a town may not direct abutting property owners to maintain sidewalks which abut county highways or which are not directly accessible from such owner's property.

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BILL NOA09141 

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10/17/2025referred to local governments

01/07/2026referred to local governments

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9141

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 October 17, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Local Governments

 AN ACT to amend the town law, in relation to prohibiting towns from
 assigning sidewalk maintenance obligations to private property owners
 in certain instances

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

 1 Section 1. Section 200-a of the town law, as amended by chapter 25 of
 2 the laws of 1980, the closing paragraph as added by chapter 255 of the
 3 laws of 1991, is amended to read as follows:
 4 § 200-a. Construction and repair of sidewalks pursuant to order of
 5 town board. 1. Whenever the town board shall have adopted an ordinance,
 6 rule or regulation pursuant to the provisions of article nine of this
 7 chapter, describing how sidewalks shall be built in such town, the town
 8 board may adopt orders from time to time, directing the owners of the
 9 respective lots and parcels of land abutting on any street, or, in towns
 10 of the first class, with the consent of the county superintendent of
 11 highways or the state commissioner of transportation, as the case may
 12 be, abutting on a county or state highway within the town, along which
 13 it is desired that sidewalks be built, relaid or repaired, to construct
 14 the same to conform with such ordinance, rule or regulation, and specify
 15 the time within which the same shall be done. The town clerk shall give
 16 notice thereof by certified mail addressed to each such owner at [his]
 17 their address as it appears upon the assessment roll of such town or, in
 18 the alternative, by publication of a notice thereof in the official
 19 paper at least twice, the first publication of which shall be at least
 20 fifteen days before the time specified for the completion of the work.
 21 If, within the time prescribed in the order and notice, the sidewalks
 22 required to be built, relaid or repaired shall not have been so built,
 23 relaid or repaired, then the board may cause the same to be done and
 24 audit and pay the expense of doing the same and assess the expense ther-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13509-01-5

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 1 eof against the property benefited as a whole, or any five or less annu-
 2 al installments, in the same manner as street improvements constructed
 3 pursuant to section two hundred of this [chapter] article.
 4 2. If such expense be assessed in installments, there shall be
 5 assessed as part of each installment, except the first, as interest, an
 6 amount not exceeding six per cent of such installment such rate to be
 7 fixed by the town board in the order providing for the assessment. The
 8 provisions of law applicable to the sale of tax liens shall apply to any
 9 unpaid assessed installment with the interest thereon in the same manner
 10 as though such installment and interest had been assessed as an assess-
 11 ment payable as a whole. Unassessed installments shall be prepayable at
 12 any time with interest computed thereon at the aforesaid rate from the
 13 date of assessment of the first installment to the date of payment of
 14 the particular installment.
 15 3. If such expense be assessed as a whole and the town board resol-
 16 ution assessing such expense against a particular piece of property
 17 shall so provide, the assessment against such property may be paid in
 18 five or less annual installments on the dates fixed by such resolution
 19