Bill Text: NY A01072 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to including Nassau county fire marshals in the MTA Long Island Rail Road no fare program; includes chief fire marshals, assistant chief fire marshals, supervising fire marshals, fire marshals and fire marshal trainees in Nassau county in the no fare program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A01072 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A01072-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1072 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 10, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to including the Nassau county fire marshals in the MTA Long Island Railroad no fare program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 1266 of the public authorities 2 law, as amended by chapter 182 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 14. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law or the terms of any 5 contract, the authority, in consultation with the Long Island Rail Road, 6 shall establish and implement a no fare program for transportation on 7 the Long Island Rail Road for police officers employed by the city of 8 New York, county of Nassau, Nassau county villages and cities, county of 9 Suffolk, Suffolk county villages and towns, the division of state 10 police, the port authority of New York and New Jersey, the Metro-North 11 Commuter Railroad Company, the New York city housing authority [and], 12 the New York city transit authority and chief fire marshals, assistant 13 chief fire marshals, supervising fire marshals, fire marshals and fire 14 marshal trainees in Nassau county. In establishing such program, which 15 has as its goal increased protection and improved safety for its commu- 16 ters, the authority and the Long Island Rail Road shall, among other 17 things, consider: (a) requiring police officers who ride without cost to 18 register with the Long Island Rail Road as a condition of riding without 19 cost; (b) requiring such officers to indicate during such registration 20 process their regular working hours and the Long Island Rail Road trains 21 that such officers expect to ride; and (c) periodically re-registering 22 and re-validating such officers. The authority and the Long Island Rail 23 Road shall also have the power to consider other matters necessary to 24 carry out the goals and objectives of this section. 25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05671-01-7