Bill Text: NY A08954 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the suspension of the collection of tolls on public roads during a state declaration of disaster emergency on the New York state thruway.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-30 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A08954 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08954-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8954

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 30, 2024
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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 amend the public authorities law, in relation to  the  suspen-
          sion  of  tolls on public roads during a state declaration of disaster
          emergency

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 361 of the public
     2  authorities  law,  as  amended  by  chapter  621 of the laws of 1998, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) In addition to the powers conferred by  the  vehicle  and  traffic
     5  law,  the  authority  is  hereby authorized to promulgate such rules and
     6  regulations for the use and occupancy of the thruway as may be necessary
     7  and proper for the public safety and convenience, for  the  preservation
     8  of  its  property  and  for the collection of tolls and provided further
     9  that the authority, in consultation with  the  departments  of  environ-
    10  mental  conservation and transportation, is hereby authorized to promul-
    11  gate rules and regulations necessary to implement a heavy  duty  vehicle
    12  roadside  inspection program pursuant to section 19-0320 of the environ-
    13  mental conservation law. Such rules and regulations shall authorize  and
    14  require  the  suspension of the collection of such tolls upon any person
    15  using and occupying public roads on which tolls are collected  during  a
    16  state declared emergency evacuation declared as a result of a natural or
    17  a  man-made  disaster,  and  subject  to  a required evacuation for such
    18  disaster, during a state declaration of disaster emergency  pursuant  to
    19  section twenty-eight of the executive law.
    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 implemen-
    23  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    24  completed on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13385-04-4