Relates to the limitation on highway expenses in the town of Smithtown.
Ayes (18): Fuschillo, Robach, Carlucci, Gallivan, Larkin, Maziarz, Nozzolio, O'Mara, Ranzenhofer, Smith, Young, Zeldin, Dilan, Kennedy, Perkins, Squadron, Stavisky, Gipson
Excused (1): Diaz
Ayes (60): Adams, Addabbo, Avella, Bonacic, Boyle, Breslin, Carlucci, DeFrancisco, Dilan, Espaillat, Farley, Felder, Flanagan, Fuschillo, Gallivan, Gianaris, Gipson, Golden, Griffo, Grisanti, Hannon, Hassell-Thomps, Hoylman, Kennedy, Klein, Krueger, Lanza, Larkin, Latimer, LaValle, Libous, Little, Marcellino, Marchione, Martins, Maziarz, Montgomery, Nozzolio, O'Brien, O'Mara, Parker, Peralta, Perkins, Ranzenhofer, Rivera, Robach, Sampson, Sanders, Savino, Serrano, Seward, Skelos, Smith, Squadron, Stavisky, Stewart-Cousin, Tkaczyk, Valesky, Young, Zeldin
Nays (1): Ball
Excused (2): Diaz, Ritchie
BILL NUMBER:S3727
TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the highway law, in relation to the limitation on certain highway expenses in the town of Smithtown, Suffolk county
PURPOSE: To increase the amount that the Town of Smithtown may spend for the purchase of stone crushers, power rollers, motor trucks, scarifiers, concrete mixers, traction engines or road machines for grading and scraping equipment, tools and other implements.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: This bill amends the subparagraph 1-e of paragraph a of subdivision 3 of º 271 of the Highway Law to increase the amount that the Town of Smithtown may spend for the purchase of stone crushers, power rollers, motor trucks, scarifiers, concrete mixers, traction engines or road machines for grading and scraping, equipment, tools and other implements.
JUSTIFICATION: The Town of Smithtown has a population of approximately 116,000 people and has grown by approximately 3,000 in the past decade. The Town's Highway Department services over 470 miles of road. Due to the miles of roadway and the volume of traffic these roads endure each year, as well as the fact that more than one-half of the Highway Department's fleet is over fifteen years old and the fact that the cost of equipment has increased by approximately fifty percent within the past decade, the $800,000 limit is completely inadequate to meet the needs of the residents. In order to meet such needs, an increase in the authorized spending limit is required.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 2009: Transportation Cmte. 2010: S.5692 Passed Senate 2011-12: S.4686 Passed Senate
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None to the state.
EFFECTIVE DATE: This act shall take effect immediately.
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3727 2013-2014 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 13, 2013 ___________Introduced by Sen. FLANAGAN -- 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 the limitation on certain highway expenses in the town of Smithtown, Suffolk county THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subparagraph 1-e of paragraph a of subdivision 3 of section 271 of the highway law, as added by chapter 500 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows: (1-e)[Eight]ONE MILLION TWO hundred thousand dollars in the town of Smithtown in Suffolk county. S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05962-01-3
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