Bill Text: NY A04743 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4743 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides milk dealers who operate trucks throughout the state buying, delivering, and selling milk with an EZ pass free of charge, where the authority will be responsible for the cost so long as it can be proved the truck is used exclusively for such purpose.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-04-25 - held for consideration in transportation [A04743 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04743-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4743

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. WALCZYK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law,  in  relation  to  providing
          milk dealers with electronic toll collection devices free of charge

          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 378-b to read as follows:
     3    §  378-b.  Milk  dealer  EZ pass. 1. The authority shall establish and
     4  issue electronic toll collection devices  for  single  unit  trucks  and
     5  trucks having two or more axles which are owned and operated by a person
     6  or entity engaged in the purchasing, handling or selling of milk, or who
     7  bargains  for  the  purchase  or sale of milk, as defined in subdivision
     8  four of section two hundred fifty-three of the agriculture  and  markets
     9  law,  when  such  trucks are used exclusively to further the purchasing,
    10  handling, and selling of milk throughout the  state.  The  use  of  such
    11  electronic  collection  devices  shall  be at no cost to such persons or
    12  entities, and the authority shall be responsible for  the  cost  of  the
    13  toll  imposed for the use of the thruway system, or any portion thereof,
    14  by the truck to which this device is affixed.
    15    2. The authority shall promulgate rules and regulations  to  implement
    16  the  provisions  of  this  section,  including  establishing the type of
    17  documentation or other proof required to prove that a  truck  is  exclu-
    18  sively  used  to  further  the purchasing, handling, and selling of milk
    19  throughout the state.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    21  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    22  ment,  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the imple-
    23  mentation of this act on its effective date are authorized  to  be  made
    24  and completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06882-01-1