2006 New York Code - Tourism Signage Task Force.

 
    §  88-a. Tourism signage task force.  1. There is hereby established a
  tourism signage task force consisting of the following members:
    (a) the commissioner or his or her designated representative from  the
  departments   of  transportation,  economic  development,  environmental
  conservation, agriculture and  markets  and  of  the  office  of  parks,
  recreation and historic preservation;
    (b)  the  chairperson, or his or her designated representative, of the
  New York state  thruway  authority,  the  adirondack  park  agency,  the
  tourism  advisory  council, the upstate New York tourism council and the
  downstate New York tourism council;
    (c) a representative of travel and vacation  related  business  and  a
  representative  of  an  organization  of  automobile  users  and  owners
  appointed by the governor.
    2. The chairman of the task  force  shall  be  the  commissioner.  The
  members  of  the task force may elect a vice chairman, secretary or such
  other officers as it may deem necessary for such terms  as  its  members
  shall determine.
    3.  Members of the board, except for those representing New York state
  departments, agencies, authorities or councils, shall serve for  a  term
  of  two  years and may be reappointed in the same manner as provided for
  their initial appointment.
    4. A majority of the members of the  task  force  shall  constitute  a
  quorum  for the transaction of any business or the exercise of any power
  or function of the task force. An act, determination, or decision of the
  members present and entitled to vote during the  presence  of  a  quorum
  shall  be  held  to  be  the  act, determination or decision of the task
  force.
    5. The task force shall meet at least quarterly at  the  call  of  the
  chairman.  Additional  meetings may be called by the chairman subject to
  the giving of one week's notice, and shall  be  called  by  him  at  the
  request of a majority of the members of the task force.
    6.  Members  of the task force shall receive no compensation for their
  service as  members.  Members  of  the  task  force  representing  state
  agencies,  departments, authorities or councils shall be compensated for
  their actual and necessary expenses by warrant of  the  comptroller  and
  voucher  of  their  department, agency, authority or council. Members of
  the task force not representing a state department, agency, authority or
  council shall, under the warrant of the comptroller and voucher  of  the
  commissioner,  or  his duly designated agent, be allowed their necessary
  and actual expenses incurred in the performance of duty.
    7. The task force shall:
    (a) identify and define responsibilities with respect to the placement
  of tourism related directional and  informational  signage  and  promote
  inter-agency cooperation in order to encourage a uniform signage policy.
    (b)  advise  the  commissioner  on  the  development  of a uniform and
  comprehensive  state  policy  on  tourism  related  signage  and   other
  traveller information services.
    (c)  assist  in  the  development  of  a working plan for the funding,
  placement and maintenance of  directional  and  informational  signs  in
  accordance with an established policy on tourism signage.
    (d) assist and advise on the preparation, publication and distribution
  of  a  handbook  on  tourism  signage  that will identify rules and laws
  governing tourism related signage, listing contact points for the public
  to use in soliciting information and to apply for placement  of  tourism
  related  signage  and identifying costs associated with such directional
  signage.
    (e) advise and assist in the development of an adequate budget for the
  commissioner to implement the plan for tourism signage  and  such  other
  informational services as are necessary to guide the travelling public.
    (f)  advise  the  commissioner  on the marking of motor touring trails
  designated by statute.
    (g) advise the commissioner on scenic, environmental,  traffic  safety
  or  other concerns which may supersede the implementation of the tourism
  signage plan and policy.
    (h)  review,  evaluate  and  advise  the  commissioner  on   conflicts
  associated  with overlapping jurisdiction governing signage, limitations
  on the placement of signs, and establishing priority  for  placement  of
  signage when demand exceeds the available space for directional signage,
  and such other issues which may come to the attention of the task force.
    (i)  evaluate  and  recommend  to  the commissioner or the legislature
  initiatives to enhance or facilitate the development of a signage policy
  or plan.
    (j) report on or before January first of each year  to  the  governor,
  the  temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and
  the chairman of the appropriate legislative committees on the activities
  of the task force with respect to its functions, powers and duties.
    8. The task force may request and shall receive from any  subdivision,
  department,   board,   bureau,  commission,  office,  agency,  or  other
  instrumentality of the state, or any political subdivision thereof, such
  facilities, assistance and data as it deems necessary and desirable  for
  the  proper execution of its functions, powers and duties hereunder. Any
  expenses of the task force, including compensation to such personnel  as
  may  be  employed  by  the  task  force,  shall be payable out of moneys
  otherwise appropriated to the state department of transportation.