N.Y. Highway Law § 86: Agreement to control erection and maintenance of advertising devices

§ 86. Agreement to control erection and maintenance of advertising

devices. In order that the state of New York may be entitled to be paid

by the United States an increased share of the costs of projects on the

interstate highway system, the commissioner of transportation is hereby

authorized to enter into an agreement with the secretary of

transportation of the United States, as required by section one hundred

thirty-one of title twenty-three of the United States code, as amended

and to promulgate and enforce regulations in conformity with the

national policy, for control of the erection and maintenance of

advertising signs, displays, and other advertising devices within six

hundred and sixty feet of the edge of the right of way of controlled

portions of the interstate highways system which are constructed upon

any part of right of way, the entire width of which is acquired

subsequent to July first, nineteen hundred fifty-six, which do not

traverse commercial or industrial zones within the boundaries of

incorporated municipalities as of September twenty-first, nineteen

hundred fifty-nine, where in the use of real property adjacent to the

interstate highway system is subject to municipal regulation or control,

and which do not traverse other areas where the land use, as of

September twenty-first, nineteen hundred fifty-nine, was clearly

established under state law as industrial or commercial. The agreement

may also include provisions for preservation of natural beauty,

prevention of erosion, landscaping, reforestation, development of

viewpoints for scenic attractions that are accessible to the public

without charge, the erection of markers, signs or plaques, and the

development of areas, in appreciation of sites of historical

significance, to the extent that such provisions are within the existing

powers of the commissioner of transportation.

The commissioner of transportation shall take such action as is

necessary to obtain the maximum amount of federal funds available under

Federal Highway Aid Act of 1958.