Bill Text: NY A07776 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires accessible buses to be available within a service area measuring one and a half miles from any bus line of the authority or its subsidiaries.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-12-15 - enacting clause stricken [A07776 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07776-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7776--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 15, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. KEARNS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Transportation  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to the service  area
          for paratransit transportation
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 15-b of the transportation law, as
     2  amended by chapter 385 of the laws  of  1985,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    4. Accessible buses. The system shall include access by transportation
     5  disabled  persons,  including  persons  in wheelchairs, to not less than
     6  sixty-five percent of buses in  the  regularly  operated  fleet  of  the
     7  authority, which shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate
     8  their  use  by  transportation disabled persons. To meet this sixty-five
     9  percent requirement, all buses purchased, leased, or  otherwise  brought
    10  newly  into  service  on  the bus lines of the authority and its subsid-
    11  iaries, except buses leased or otherwise put  into  service  to  relieve
    12  temporary,  unplanned shortages of buses in service, shall be accessible
    13  to transportation disabled persons until the sixty-five percent require-
    14  ment is met.  Accessible buses shall be available within a service  area
    15  measuring  one  a  half miles from any bus line of the authority and its
    16  subsidiaries.
    17    § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 15-c of the transportation law, as added
    18  by chapter 61 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
    19    4. Required level of fixed-route accessibility. a. Each transportation
    20  provider shall provide access to one hundred percent of  its  regularly-
    21  operated  buses  that  provide  local, fixed-route service. To implement
    22  this requirement on and after the effective date of  this  section,  all
    23  buses  purchased,  leased  or  otherwise brought into service on the bus
    24  lines of each transportation provider shall be lift-equipped except  any
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11405-02-7
        A. 7776--A                          2
     1  bus which a provider has under contract of purchase on July first, nine-
     2  teen  hundred  ninety  for  delivery after that date. Such lift-equipped
     3  buses shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate their  use
     4  by transit-disabled persons.
     5    b.  The  provisions of paragraph a of this subdivision shall not apply
     6  to buses that are purchased, leased or otherwise  brought  into  service
     7  that have a useful life of six years or less.
     8    c. Accessible buses shall be available within a service area measuring
     9  one  and a half miles from any bus line of the authority and its subsid-
    10  iaries.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    12  have become a law.