New York S 8017: Extends the time when the state is liable for damages suffered by any person from defects in state highways

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S08017 Summary:

BILL NOS08017 

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SAME ASSAME AS A04190

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SPONSORCOMRIE

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §58, Hway L

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Extends the time when the state is liable for damages suffered by any person from defects in state highways to between April 1 and December 1.

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BILL NOS08017 

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05/15/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8017

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 May 15, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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 extending the time when
 the state is liable for damages suffered by any person from defects in
 state highways

 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 except between the first day of [May] April and the [fifteenth] first
 6 day of [November] December on such highways as are maintained by the
 7 state under such system as the commissioner of transportation may adopt
 8 pursuant to section twelve of this chapter, but the liability for such
 9 damages shall otherwise remain as now provided by law, notwithstanding
 10 the construction or improvement and maintenance of such highways by the
 11 state under this chapter; but nothing herein contained shall be
 12 construed to impose on the state any liability for defects in bridges
 13 over which the state has no control. Within the limits of incorporated
 14 villages the state shall maintain a width of pavement equal to the width
 15 of pavement constructed or improved at the expense of the state, if a
 16 state highway, the location of the state's portion of such roadway with-
 17 in said incorporated limits to be determined by the center line of the
 18 roadway as shown on the plans on file with the department of transporta-
 19 tion and the state shall be liable for damages to persons or property
 20 only when such damage shall occur as a result of the defective condition
 21 of the portion of improved highway as above described.
 22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
 23 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
 24 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
 25 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
 26 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07612-01-5

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