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

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7776
                               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
        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 and a half miles from any bus line of  the  authority  and
    16  its subsidiaries.
    17    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    18  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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