A 23: Requires the department of transportation to include in its existing vegetative management program the removal of invasive vines which are so hazardous that they pose an imminent danger of causing trees or tree limbs to fall onto highways.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 23 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BURDICK -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to requiring the department of transportation to include in its existing vegetative management program the removal of invasive vines The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The highway law is amended by adding a new section 333 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 333. Roadside maintenance; invasive vines. The department of trans- 4 portation shall include in its existing vegetative management program 5 the removal of vines which have grown into or around trees and have 6 compromised the structural integrity of the tree or limbs of the tree in 7 a manner that poses an imminent danger of causing the tree or limbs of 8 the tree to fall onto a state highway or a state thruway. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 10 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00035-01-5