Title TRA, Transportation

§ 244. Continuation of rules and regulations. All rules and regulations, acts, determinations, orders and decisions of the public service commission and the department of public service, pertaining to the functions transferred pursuant to this article, in force at the time of su…

§ 245. Completion of unfinished business. Any business or other matter undertaken or commenced by the public service commission or the department of public service pertaining to or connected with the functions, powers, obligations and duties transferred pursuant to this article,…

§ 246. Terms occurring in laws, contracts or other documents. Whenever the public service commission or the department of public service is referred to or designated in any law, contract or document pertaining to the functions, powers, obligations and duties transferred pursuant…

§ 247. Existing rights and remedies preserved. No existing right or remedy of any character shall be lost, impaired or affected by reason of this article.

§ 248. Pending actions and proceedings. No action or proceeding pending on March first, nineteen hundred seventy-one brought by or against the public service commission or the department of public service, and pertaining to or connected with the functions, powers, obligations an…

§ 249. Transfer of appropriations. All appropriations or reappropriations for the functions herein transferred heretofore made to the public service commission or the department of public service, or segregated pursuant to law, to the extent of remaining unexpended or unencumber…

§ 25. Interstate bridge commission. The commissioner of transportation or his duly authorized representative shall constitute the interstate bridge commission. Such commission shall, together with a similar board or commission from the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, constitute a …

§ 250. Opinions, determinations, decisions and judgments. All opinions, determinations, decisions and judgments hitherto rendered in a court of competent jurisdiction in an action or proceeding in which the public service commission or department of public service was a party sh…

§ 251. Codification of changes. The commissioner shall prepare or cause to be prepared for the submission to a session of the legislature a codification of the laws relating to the functions, powers and duties of the public service commission or the department of public service …

§ 26. Expense of maintenance a joint charge; reconstruction of bridges. Upon the acquisition as aforesaid by this state jointly with the commonwealth of Pennsylvania of the bridge properties, rights and franchises, as hereinbefore provided, such bridge or bridges, except in the …

§ 260. Department of public works abolished. The department of public works in the state government, created, established and continued by section five of the public works law, as last amended by chapter three hundred fifty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred sixty-one, is her…

§ 261. Transfer of functions. All of the functions and powers possessed by and all the obligations and duties of the department of public works and the superintendent of public works, except those pertaining to the construction of public buildings, and flood control and shore li…

§ 262. Transfer of employees. Upon the transfer of functions to the department of transportation pursuant to this chapter, provision shall be made for the transfer to the department of transportation of such employees of the department of public works who are engaged in carrying…

§ 263. Transfer of records. The superintendent of public works shall deliver to the commissioner of transportation all books, papers, records and property of the department of public works and the superintendent of public works pertaining to the functions herein transferred.

§ 264. Continuity of authority. For the purpose of succession to all functions, powers, duties, and obligations transferred and assigned to, devolved upon and assumed by it pursuant to this chapter, the department of transportation shall be deemed and held to constitute the cont…

§ 265. Completion of unfinished business. Any business or other matter undertaken or commenced by the department of public works or the superintendent of public works pertaining to or connected with the functions, powers, obligations and duties hereby transferred and assigned, a…

§ 266. Continuance of rules and regulations. All rules, regulations, acts, determinations and decisions of the department of public works and the superintendent of public works pertaining to the functions herein transferred and assigned, in force at the time of such transfer, as…

§ 267. Terms occurring in laws, contracts and other documents. Whenever the superintendent of public works or the department of public works is referred to or designated in any law, contract or document pertaining to the functions, powers, obligations and duties hereby transferr…

§ 268. Existing rights and remedies preserved. No existing right or remedy of any character shall be lost, impaired or affected by reason of this chapter.

§ 269. Pending actions and proceedings. No action or proceeding pending at the time when this chapter shall take effect, brought by or against the superintendent of public works or the department of public works shall be affected by any provision of this chapter, but the same ma…

§ 27. Power to sell and lease property; disposition of proceeds. Provided that concurrent legislation for the same purpose be enacted by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the said joint commission be and is hereby authorized and empowered as follows: (a) To sell and dispose of s…

§ 270. Transfer of appropriations heretofore made to department of public works. All appropriations or reappropriations for the functions herein transferred heretofore made to the department of public works, or segregated pursuant to law, to the extent of remaining unexpended or…

§ 271. Codification of changes. The commissioner of transportation shall prepare or cause to be prepared for submission to the next regular session of the legislature a codification of the laws relating to the functions, powers and duties of the department of transportation as a…

§ 272. Time to take effect. This act shall take effect September first, nineteen hundred sixty-seven.

§ 30. Urban transportation planning. Notwithstanding section seven hundred thirty-four of the executive law or any other law, the commissioner shall have power to sponsor, conduct and undertake urban transportation studies and to act as the state planning agency for metropolitan…

§ 300. Declaration of policy. In order to assure effective discharge of state responsibility with respect to the provision of adequate mass transportation services to the inhabitants of the State, the department may enter into an agreement with any municipal corporation to pay o…

§ 301. Definitions. Whenever used in this article, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: 1. "Mass transportation capital project." The acquisition, construction, reconstruction or improvement with federal assistance of any rapid transit, railroad, omnibus,…

§ 302. Application for assistance. The commissioner is hereby authorized to receive and review applications from municipal corporations for state aid for municipal projects, and to approve such applications, within the amounts appropriated therefor, as are part of or consistent …

§ 303. State appropriation. No moneys shall be expended for the state share of any municipal project unless and until the project has been approved by the commissioner and unless and until such project shall have been recommended by the governor in a budget bill which specifies …

§ 304. Project grant procedure. State moneys may be expended for any municipal project pursuant to a contract entered into by the commissioner, in the name of the state, and the municipal corporation undertaking such project. Any such contract may include such provisions as may …

§ 305. Reimbursement of state overpayments. The commissioner shall keep adequate records of the amount of the payments made by the state in connection with each contract concerning a municipal project authorized by this article and the amount of the federal assistance actually r…

§ 306. Progress reporting. The commissioner shall prepare and file annually on or about the first of December with the governor, the office of planning services, and the director of the budget a report on the scope and results of construction undertaken in accordance with this a…

§ 31. Mass transportation demonstration projects. The commissioner shall have power to sponsor, conduct and undertake mass transportation demonstration projects which will assist in carrying out urban transportation plans and research, including but not limited to the developmen…

§ 31-a. Purchase through the state division of standards and purchase in the office of general services by certain not-for-profit corporations. A corporation, incorporated under the not-for-profit corporation law of the state of New York and approved by the federal government as…

§ 32. Niagara thruway toll removal fund. 1. There is hereby created within the department of transportation the "Niagara thruway toll removal fund". The fund shall be a corporate governmental agency constituting a public benefit corporation. It shall be administered by three tru…

§ 33. Purposes of fund. The purposes of this fund shall be to provide a means for elimination of existing tolls, except bridge tolls, on the Niagara section of the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway within the context of protection of the rights of the bond holders of the New York…

§ 34. General powers and duties of the fund. The fund shall have the following powers in addition to those specifically conferred elsewhere in this article: 1. To sue and be sued; 2. To have a seal and alter the same at pleasure; 3. To make and alter by-laws for its organization…

§ 35. Resources of fund. 1. (a) There shall be paid into the fund any and all moneys received by the state from the federal government in payment of its share, pursuant to the applicable provisions of title twenty-three, United States Code, of the cost of construction of said se…

§ 36. Article not affected if in part unconstitutional or ineffective. If any section, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or provision of this article shall be unconstitutional or be ineffective in whole or in part, to the extent that it is not unconstitutional or ineffect…

§ 37. Inconsistent provisions of other acts superseded. Insofar as the provisions of this article are inconsistent with the provisions of any other act, general or special, the provisions of this article shall be controlling.

§ 40. Definitions. Whenever used in this article, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: 1. "Authority" shall mean a public benefit corporation created by section forty-one of this article for the purposes specified in article five-I of the general municipa…

* § 400. Air transportation facilities and services at Stewart and Republic airports. 1. In order to meet present and future state needs with respect to the provision of adequate, safe and efficient air transportation facilities and services to the public, and to promote the eco…

* § 400. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds and declares that: 1. Transportation of people and goods is vital to the economic and social well-being of the metropolitan area embracing the counties of Nassau, Putnam, Rockland, Suffolk and Westchester and the city o…

* § 401. Stewart airport commission. 1. Upon assumption by the department of transportation of jurisdiction over the airport facility and surrounding area located in the county of Orange, known as Stewart airport, there shall thereupon be created a Stewart airport commission. Th…

* § 401. Continuation of transportation coordinating committees; committee membership. 1. The Mid-Hudson south transportation coordinating committee is continued, with voting membership to include: (a) the Westchester county executive; (b) the Putnam county executive; (c) the ch…

* § 402. Republic airport commission. 1. Upon assumption by the department of transportation of jurisdiction over the airport facility and surrounding area located in the county of Suffolk, known as Republic airport, there shall thereupon be created a Republic airport commission…

* § 402. Council membership. 1. The council of transportation coordinating committees is hereby created and shall have as voting members: (a) the Westchester county executive; (b) the Putnam county executive; (c) the chairman of the Rockland county legislature; (d) the Nassau co…

* § 403. Officers. 1. The commissioner of transportation shall serve as the permanent co-chairperson of the council with functional responsibility for agency operations. There shall be a rotating council co-chairperson, elected each year in turn by one of the transportation coor…

* § 403. Definitions. For the purposes of this article: 1. "New York city transit authority" shall be deemed to include its subsidiary, the Manhattan and Bronx Surface Transit Operating Authority, and any other agency that may come under the control of the New York city transit …

* § 404. Voting by consensus. All actions taken by the transportation coordinating committees and by the council shall be by the unanimous vote of affected parties, with the co-chairpersons judging the extent to which members are affected by proposed committee or council actions…