Bill Text: NY A00025 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires cash lanes be made available at certain toll barriers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-01-22 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [A00025 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A00025-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         25--B
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by M. of A. FARRELL, SCARBOROUGH, COOK -- Multi-Sponsored by
         -- M. of A.  BRENNAN, MARKEY, MILLMAN, ROSA -- read once and  referred
         to  the  Committee  on  Corporations,  Authorities  and Commissions --
         committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
         recommitted  to  said  committee -- again reported from said committee
         with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to  said
         committee
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the public authorities law, in relation to requiring
         cash lanes to be made available at certain toll barriers
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.    The  public  authorities law is amended by adding a new
    2  section 1266-j to read as follows:
    3    S 1266-J. PLACEMENT OF ELECTRONIC  TOLL  COLLECTION  SYSTEM  LANES  AT
    4  METROPOLITAN  TRANSPORTATION  AUTHORITY  TOLL  BARRIERS LOCATED WITHIN A
    5  CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE.  THE  CHAIRMAN  OF  THE
    6  AUTHORITY  SHALL  ESTABLISH, BY RULE OR REGULATION, REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
    7  PLACEMENT OF AT LEAST ONE  CASH  LANE  TO  BE  MADE  AVAILABLE  FOR  THE
    8  COLLECTION  OF TOLLS AND FARES WHERE ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION SYSTEMS,
    9  AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TWELVE OF SECTION TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED  EIGHTY-
   10  FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER, HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED AT THE TOLL BARRIERS OPERATED
   11  BY  THE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY AT A TOLL HIGHWAY, BRIDGE,
   12  TUNNEL OR OTHER THOROUGHFARE LOCATED WITHIN A CITY HAVING  A  POPULATION
   13  OF  ONE  MILLION  OR  MORE. SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS SHALL SPECIFY THE
   14  GENERAL LOCATION OF THE ROADWAY LANES  IN  WHICH  CASH  LANES  SHALL  BE
   15  LOCATED.
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   17  it  shall have become a law, provided, however, that the chairman of the
   18  metropolitan transportation authority  is  authorized  and  directed  to
   19  promulgate   any  rules  and  regulations  necessary  to  implement  the
   20  provisions of this act on or before such effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD02953-06-3