New York Transportation Law Article 2 - POWERS, DUTIES AND JURISDICTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

• 10 - Declaration of Policy.
  It is hereby declared to be the policy of the state of New York that adequate, safe and efficient transportation facilities and services at reasonable...
• 11 - Department of Transportation; Commissioner.
  There shall be in the state government a department of transportation. The head of the department shall be the commissioner of transportation, who shall be...
• 12 - Offices of the Department.
  The principal office of the department of transportation shall be in the county of Albany. Branch offices may be established and maintained by the department...
• 13 - Organization of Department; Officers and Employees.
  1. The commissioner may, from time to time, create, abolish, transfer and consolidate divisions, bureaus and other units within the department not expressly established by...
• 14 - General Functions, Powers and Duties of Department.
  The department, by or through the commissioner or his duly authorized officer or employee, shall have the following general functions, powers and duties: 1. To...
• 14-a - Preservation of Agricultural Lands, Public Park and Recreational Lands, Wildlife and Waterfowl Refuges and Historical Sites.
  The commissioner of transportation shall cooperate and consult with the commissioners of agriculture and markets, parks and recreation, environmental conservation and health in developing transportation...
• 14-b - Highway Safety Powers and Duties.
  The department of transportation shall have power to: 1. Advise and assist local authorities as defined in section one hundred twenty-two of the vehicle and...
• 14-c - Intercity Rail Passenger Service Program.
  1. The department of transportation may cooperate and contract with the national railroad passenger corporation for any intercity rail passenger services deemed necessary, convenient or...
• 14-d - Rail Service Preservation.
  1. Authorization is hereby given to the commissioner of transportation: a. to acquire, by purchase, gift, grant, transfer, contract or lease, any rail transportation facility...
• 14-e - Development of Transportation Corridors; Multiple Use Outside the Counties of Kings and Queens of Right of Way.
  The commissioner of transportation shall have power to provide, with or without federal aid, for surveys, studies and plans which include the negotiating for and...
• 14-f - Transportation of Hazardous Materials.
  1. The commissioner of transportation is hereby authorized to promote safety in the transportation of hazardous materials by all modes of transportation, and in connection...
• 14-g - Intercity Bus Passenger Service Preservation.
  1. Authorization is hereby given to the commissioner of transportation to contract with any person, firm, corporation or agency, including, but not limited to, any...
• 14-h - Airport Preservation.
  1. In order to preserve and enhance the air transportation system of the state, the commissioner of transportation is hereby authorized: a. To enter into...
• 14-i - Long Island Expressway; Design and Construction.
  1. The commissioner shall prepare an environmental impact statement on the project to add travel lanes to the Long Island expressway between exits forty-nine and...
• 14-j - Special Rail and Aviation Transportation Program.
  1. The commissioner is hereby authorized to enter into a contract, lease or agreement with the New York state thruway authority for the financing by...
• 14-k - Multi-Modal Program.
  1. There is hereby established the "multi-modal program". The commissioner is hereby authorized to enter into a contract, lease or agreement with the New York...
• 14-l - Airport Improvement and Revitalization.
  14-1. Airport improvement and revitalization. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, an airport improvement and revitalization grant and loan program is...
• 14-m - Airport Security.
  1. For the purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (a) the term "airport" shall have the same meaning as...
• 15 - Comprehensive Statewide Master Plan for Transportation.
  1. The department shall formulate and from time to time revise a long-range comprehensive statewide master plan for the balanced development and coordination of adequate,...
• 15-a - Metropolitan Planning Organization and Participants; Certain Functions.
  1. In each urbanized area in which a public transportation system provides services, the existing metropolitan planning organization designated as such by the governor for...
• 15-b - New York City Accessible Transportation System; New York City Transportation Disabled Committee.
  1. Definitions. When used in this section: a. "Authority" shall mean the New York city transit authority and its subsidiaries. b. "Committee" shall mean the...
• 15-c - Accessible Public Transportation.
  1. Definitions. When used in this section: a. "Transportation provider" shall mean the Niagara frontier transportation authority, the Rochester-Genesee transportation authority, the capital district transportation...
• 16 - Delegation of Powers and Duties.
  The commissioner may, by official order filed with the department of transportation, delegate any of his powers to or direct any of his duties to...
• 17 - State Advances to Authorities for Preparation of Plans.
  1. Application may be made to the commissioner by an authority for state advances for making studies relating to and preparing preliminary plans and detailed...
• 17-a - Reports of Regional Transportation Authorities; Certain Cases.
  1. Each regional transportation authority shall submit to the governor, the commissioner, the chairman and ranking minority member of the senate finance committee, and the...
• 17-b - Public Transportation Safety Plans; Filing.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision eight of section twelve hundred sixty-six and subdivision seven of section twelve hundred ninety-nine-f of the public authorities law...
• 18 - Acquisition of Abandoned Railroad Transportation Property.
  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any general, special or local law to the contrary, the commissioner shall have a preferential right to acquire, for and...
• 18-a - Statewide Mass Transportation Operating Assistance Program.
  * 1. Within the amounts made available therefor by appropriation, a statewide mass transportation operating assistance program is hereby established for the purpose of making...
• 18-b - Statewide Mass Transportation Operating Assistance Program.
  1. Within the amounts made available therefor by appropriation, a statewide mass transportation operating assistance program is hereby established for the purpose of making payments...
• 19 - Interstate High Speed Intercity Rail Passenger Network Compact.
  The interstate high speed intercity rail passenger network compact is hereby ratified, enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein...
• 20 - Nighttime Work on Major Capital Construction Projects on Highways, Expressways and Parkways.
  1. On every major limited access highway, expressway and parkway capital construction project to be initiated by the department in regions ten and eleven on...
• 21 - Single Audit Program.
  1. Municipalities and public authorities that expend in excess of one hundred thousand dollars in any fiscal year from funds provided through state transportation programs,...
• 22 - Work Zone Safety and Enforcement.
  The department shall, in cooperation with the superintendent of state police, the commissioner of motor vehicles, the chairman of the New York state thruway authority,...

Last modified: February 3, 2019