Title TRA, Transportation

* § 472. Powers and duties of the commissioner. In addition to other powers provided for in law, the commissioner is hereby authorized: 1. To provide for the accomplishment of any authorized transportation infrastructure project, and to provide for the accomplishment of any auth…

* § 473. Powers and duties of municipalities. A municipality is hereby authorized: 1. To undertake and carry out any municipal transportation infrastructure project for which state assistance is received or is to be received pursuant to this article. 2. To expend money received …

* § 474. Approval of projects. When the funds for municipal transportation infrastructure projects are appropriated to the department, such projects shall be undertaken only pursuant to contract with the commissioner entered into following submission to and approval by the commi…

* § 475. Contracts for municipal transportation infrastructure projects. Any such contract between the commissioner and a municipality may include such provisions as may be agreed upon by the parties thereto, and shall include, in substance, the following: 1. an estimate of the …

* § 476. Maintenance of records. In connection with each contract, the commissioner and the municipality shall keep adequate records of the amount of the payment by the state, the amount of federal assistance, if any, received by the municipality for the project, and of all mone…

* § 477. Consistency with federal tax law. All actions taken pursuant to this article shall be reviewed for consistency with provisions of the federal internal revenue code and regulations thereunder, in accordance with procedures established in connection with the issuance of a…

* § 478. Compliance with other law. Every recipient of funds to be made available pursuant to this article shall comply with all applicable state, federal and local laws. * NB Not effective due to defeat of the Transportation Bond Act of 2000

§ 48. Not within jurisdiction of public service commission. The acquisition, construction, reconstruction or improvement of any omnibus transportation capital project by the Utica transit authority pursuant to this article shall not be subject to the jurisdiction of the public s…

§ 480. Expenditure of moneys. 1. In accordance with the provisions of the rebuild and renew New York transportation bond act of two thousand five authorizing the creation of general obligation debt in the amount of two billion nine hundred million dollars ($2,900,000,000), the m…

§ 481. Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: 1. "Transportation infrastructure project" shall mean a project undertaken with funds provided in whole or in part by the rebuild and renew New York transportation bond act of two…

§ 482. Powers and duties of the commissioner. In addition to other powers provided for in law, the commissioner is hereby authorized: 1. To provide for the accomplishment of any authorized transportation infrastructure project, and to provide for the accomplishment of any author…

§ 483. Powers and duties of municipalities. A municipality is hereby authorized: 1. To undertake and carry out any municipal transportation infrastructure project for which state assistance is received or is to be received pursuant to this article. 2. To expend money received fr…

§ 484. Approval of projects. When the funds for municipal transportation infrastructure projects are appropriated to the department, such projects shall be undertaken only pursuant to contract with the commissioner entered into following submission to and approval by the commiss…

§ 485. Contracts for municipal transportation infrastructure projects. Any such contract between the commissioner and a municipality may include such provisions as may be agreed upon by the parties thereto, and shall include, in substance, the following: 1. an estimate of the re…

§ 486. Maintenance of records. In connection with each contract, the commissioner and the municipality shall keep adequate records of the amount of the payment by the state, the amount of federal assistance, if any, received by the municipality for the project, and of all moneys…

§ 487. Consistency with federal tax law. All actions taken pursuant to this article shall be reviewed for consistency with provisions of the federal internal revenue code and regulations thereunder, in accordance with procedures established in connection with the issuance of any…

§ 488. Compliance with other law. Every recipient of funds to be made available pursuant to this article shall comply with all applicable state, federal and local laws.

§ 49. Plans for proposed municipal projects; statement of project costs. The Utica transit authority shall file with the commissioner a copy of each proposed municipal project embodying the plans, specifications, estimated costs and proposed method of financing. Any change made …

§ 50. Statewide transportation planning. Project coordination with statewide transportation plan. Upon review of a proposed municipal project submitted to the commissioner under section forty-nine herein, the commissioner may transmit, within a reasonably prompt time, advisory c…

§ 51. Comprehensive regional planning. Project coordination with comprehensive regional planning. Prior to undertaking a municipal project, the Utica transit authority shall comply with the provisions of this section. Where a proposed municipal project is to be located in whole …

§ 52. Construction contracts, cancellation of contracts, disqualification to contract with mass transportation authority, statement of non-collusion in bids on proposals. 1. Contracts of the Utica transit authority for construction, alteration, renovation, demolition, excavation…

§ 53. Financial assistance from and cooperation with the state and federal governments. The Utica transit authority is empowered to include in agreements with the state and/or federal governments provisions that such government or governments shall have the right to approve in a…

§ 54. Bonds. 1. The Utica transit authority shall have the power, and is hereby authorized, from time to time to borrow money and issue bonds in such amounts and upon such terms as it may deem advisable for any of the purposes of this article. Bonds, except those for the acquisi…

§ 55. Provisions of bonds. Bonds of the Utica transit authority shall be authorized by its resolution and may be issued singly or in one or more series, and shall bear such date or dates, mature at such time or times, bear interest at such rate or rates, not exceeding seven per …

§ 56. Negotiability of bonds. Whether or not any bonds, interim certificates or other obligations of the Utica transit authority issued pursuant to this article are of such form and character as to be negotiable instruments under article eight of the uniform commercial code, suc…

§ 57. Signature on bonds. In case any of the members or officers of the Utica transit authority whose signatures appear on any bonds or coupons shall cease to be such members or officers before the delivery of such bonds, such signatures shall, nevertheless, be valid and suffici…

§ 58. Repurchase of bonds. The Utica transit authority shall have power to purchase any bonds issued by it for the purpose of retirement or investment. The Utica transit authority shall not purchase such bonds at a price in excess of the face value thereof plus a premium of four…

§ 59. Suit on bonds. In any suit, action or proceeding upon any bond of the Utica transit authority or the security therefor, any such bond reciting in substance that it has been issued by such an authority to aid in financing a municipal project to provide omnibus transportatio…

§ 60. Bond covenants. 1. In connection with the issuance of bonds or the incurring of an obligation, and to secure the payment of such bonds or obligations, the Utica transit authority, in addition to its other powers, may: (a) Pledge, covenant to pledge or covenant against pled…

§ 61. Bonds and notes as legal investments. The bonds and notes of the Utica transit authority are hereby made securities in which all public officers and bodies of the state and all municipalities and municipal subdivisions thereof, all insurance companies and associations and …

§ 62. Remedies against the Utica transit authority. 1. In an action or proceeding to foreclose a mortgage on property of the Utica transit authority, the authority and all other necessary parties, shall be made parties defendant and shall take such steps in said action as may be…

§ 62-a. Actions against authority. Except in an action for wrongful death, no action or special proceeding shall be prosecuted or maintained against the authority, its members, officers, or employees for personal injury or damage to real or personal property alleged to have been…

§ 63. Liability of state or municipality. The bonds or other obligations of the Utica transit authority shall not be a debt of the state or a municipality and neither the state nor a municipality shall be liable thereon nor shall the Utica transit authority have power in any way…

§ 64. Tax exemptions. 1. The Utica transit authority shall be exempt from the payment of (a) any taxes or fees to the state or any subdivision thereof, (b) any fees to any officer or employee of the state or of any subdivision thereof, except where it is provided by or pursuant …

§ 65. Depositories of funds. In order to protect funds deposited by the Utica transit authority all banks, bankers, trust companies or other persons carrying on a banking business, organized under the laws of the state, are authorized to give to the authority an undertaking with…

§ 66. Filing of by-laws, rules and regulations. 1. The Utica transit authority shall file with the commissioner a copy of any by-laws, rules and regulations and amendments thereto adopted by it from time to time. No such by-laws, rules and regulations and amendments thereto shal…

§ 67. Dissolution. The Utica transit authority may apply to the supreme court in any county within the Utica transit authority's jurisdiction for an order dissolving such authority. The court thereupon shall hold a hearing in open court after such notice of hearing as the court …

§ 68. Disposal of records. 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law, the Utica transit authority or officer or employee thereof is hereby empowered to destroy, sell or otherwise dispose of any book, paper, map photograph, microphotograph or other re…

§ 69. Reproduction of records. The Utica transit authority may cause any paper, document or other record kept or recorded by it to be recorded, copied or reproduced by any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, microcard, miniature photographic or other process which accurately r…

§ 70. Special parkways. 1. The department shall be responsible for and shall have jurisdiction for the purposes of construction, reconstruction, improvement and maintenance of the special parkways as designated in this article, and for expediting the construction, reconstruction…

§ 71. Powers of commissioner. In addition to all powers conferred by other provisions of law, the commissioner with respect to special parkways designated by this article shall have power: 1. Subject to the approval of the state comptroller to provide procedures for the receipt,…

§ 73-a. Short title. This article may be cited as the "rural public transportation coordination assistance program".

§ 73-b. Legislative findings and purposes. The legislature hereby finds, determines, and declares that: 1. the inability of persons in rural areas to access public or private transportation services often is detrimental to the public health, safety and general welfare because su…

§ 73-c. Definitions. Whenever used in this article, the following terms shall have the respective meanings: 1. "Department" shall mean the state department of transportation. 2. "Commissioner" shall mean the commissioner of transportation. 3. "Committee" shall refer to the New Y…

§ 73-d. Interagency coordinating committee on rural public transportation. 1. There is hereby created a committee to be known as the "interagency coordinating committee on rural public transportation", to be comprised of nineteen members. The commissioner or his or her designee …

§ 73-e. Rural public transportation coordination assistance program. 1. Program established. There is hereby established a rural public transportation coordination assistance program which shall: a. enhance the access of people in rural counties to health care, shopping, educati…

§ 73-f. Local coordination of rural public transportation services. Transportation services funded under this article must be coordinated with transportation services funded by other federal, state and local sources. Public, private, and private non-profit corporations or organi…

§ 73-g. Financial assistance for creation of coordinated rural public transportation services. 1. The commissioner may approve grants to any rural county having no coordinated public transportation service, for the purpose of developing such a service, and such approval shall re…

§ 73-h. Operating aid. 1. For those rural counties having an approved and implemented coordinated public transportation service plan which has maintained existing levels of funding used for transportation by the coordinated service and has documented the need for additional oper…

§ 73-j. Special provisions relating to aid. 1. Within one hundred twenty days after the adoption of a state budget containing an appropriation implementing this article, the commissioner shall send to the county executive, if any, or the chairperson of the county legislative bod…