New York S 7393: Relates to the maintenance, improvement and repair of certain town highways

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S07393 Summary:

BILL NOS07393 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORGRIFFO

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COSPNSRASHBY, GALLIVAN, HELMING, MAY, WALCZYK

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §205-c, Hway L

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Permits the designation of low volume roads and minimum maintenance roads by town boards; enacts provisions relating to the maintenance, improvement and repair of such roads; removes the limitation that such provisions only apply to a designated town.

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BILL NOS07393 

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04/14/2025REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7393

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. GRIFFO, ASHBY, GALLIVAN, HELMING, MAY, WALCZYK --
 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 minimum maintenance
 roads by towns

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

 1 Section 1. Section 205-c of the highway law, as added by chapter 690
 2 of the laws of 2023, subdivision 5 as added by chapter 108 of the laws
 3 of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
 4 § 205-c. Minimum maintenance roads. 1. a. The town board of any town
 5 may, by resolution, designate certain town highways as low-volume roads
 6 or portions thereof pursuant to the classifications defined in this
 7 section. In classifying such roads, the town board shall base the clas-
 8 sification on traffic volumes, types of vehicles using the road or
 9 portion thereof, and the current adjacent land uses. The town board
 10 shall refer proposed classifications to the town highway superintendent
 11 and the town planning board, if present in such town.
 12 b. Upon receipt of the proposed resolution, the town highway super-
 13 intendent and, where applicable, town planning board, shall report their
 14 recommendations to the town board, accompanied by a statement of the
 15 reasons for such recommendations within forty-five days of receipt.
 16 Upon receipt of the recommendations from the town highway superintendent
 17 and, where applicable, town planning board, or upon the expiration of
 18 forty-five days from the date the proposed resolution was referred, the
 19 town board may adopt by majority vote, the local classification resol-
 20 ution.
 21 2. a. The town board of any [designated] town may, after a public
 22 hearing, adopt a local law designating any low-volume road or portion
 23 thereof providing agricultural or recreational land access, except for
 24 farm access roads or roads that provide access to an individual year-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11371-02-5

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 1 round residence at the time of designation, as a minimum maintenance
 2 road. No such law shall restrict farm operations in an agricultural
 3 district. Such local law shall not prevent the state from maintaining
 4 such road if the road passes over, or provides access to, state land. No
 5 such law designating a minimum maintenance road shall be effective until
 6 minimum maintenance standards are adopted and signs are posted advising
 7 the public that such road is a minimum maintenance road. No road, once
 8 designated a minimum maintenance road, shall be determined to have been
 9 abandoned pursuant to the provisions of subdivision one of section two
 10 hundred five of this article solely because it has been designated a
 11 minimum maintenance road.
 12 b. At least forty-five days prior to the public hearing on such local
 13 law the town board having jurisdiction over such road shall issue find-
 14 ings that such road or portion thereof should be designated a minimum
 15 maintenance road. Such findings shall include, but not be limited to:
 16 (i) the volume and type of motor vehicle traffic on such road;
 17 (ii) a determination that the property owners of land abutting the
 18 road shall continue to have access to their property;
 19 (iii) a determination tha