Bill Text: NY A01704 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes an amnesty program for tolls charged on the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge and prohibits the collection of any toll or associated fee for travel over such bridge for persons enrolled in the rebate program for residents of the Rockaway Peninsula for travel over such bridge.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A01704 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01704-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1704
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 16, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
        AN ACT to establish an amnesty program for tolls charged  on  the  Cross
          Bay  Veterans  Memorial  Bridge  and to prohibit the collection of any
          toll or associated fee for travel over such bridge
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  1.  Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,
     2  the metropolitan transportation authority  shall  establish  an  amnesty
     3  program for any person charged with the payment of a toll or any associ-
     4  ated  fees  for the use of the Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge who is
     5  enrolled in the rebate program for residents of the  Rockaway  Peninsula
     6  for travel over such bridge. Such amnesty program shall allow any person
     7  charged  with  a  toll  or  associated  fee for the use of the Cross Bay
     8  Veterans Memorial Bridge who is enrolled in such rebate program to  have
     9  such  tolls  or  associated fees waived for a period of ninety days from
    10  the establishment of such amnesty program.
    11    2. Notwithstanding any provision  of  law  to  the  contrary,  at  the
    12  conclusion  of  the  amnesty program established pursuant to subdivision
    13  one of this section, no toll or  associated  fee  shall  be  levied  and
    14  collected  on  the  Cross  Bay  Veterans  Memorial Bridge for any person
    15  enrolled in the rebate program for residents of the  Rockaway  Peninsula
    16  for travel over such bridge.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03777-01-9