2006 New York Code - 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.