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                                         32--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced by Sen. ESPAILLAT -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed  to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- commit-
         tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and  recom-
         mitted to said committee
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the public authorities law, in relation to requiring
         cash lanes to be made available at certain toll barriers
         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 1266-j to read as follows:
    3    S 1266-J. PLACEMENT OF ELECTRONIC  TOLL  COLLECTION  SYSTEM  LANES  AT
    4  METROPOLITAN  TRANSPORTATION  AUTHORITY  TOLL  BARRIERS LOCATED WITHIN A
    5  CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR  MORE.  THE  COMMISSIONER  OF
    6  TRANSPORTATION  SHALL ESTABLISH, BY RULE OR REGULATION, REQUIREMENTS FOR
    7  THE PLACEMENT OF AT LEAST ONE CASH LANE TO BE  MADE  AVAILABLE  FOR  THE
    8  COLLECTION  OF TOLLS AND FARES WHERE ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION SYSTEMS,
    9  AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TWELVE OF SECTION TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED  EIGHTY-
   10  FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER, HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED AT THE TOLL BARRIERS OPERATED
   11  BY  THE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY AT A TOLL HIGHWAY, BRIDGE,
   12  TUNNEL OR OTHER THOROUGHFARE LOCATED WITHIN A CITY HAVING  A  POPULATION
   13  OF  ONE  MILLION  OR  MORE. SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS SHALL SPECIFY THE
   14  GENERAL LOCATION OF THE ROADWAY LANES  IN  WHICH  CASH  LANES  SHALL  BE
   15  LOCATED.
   16    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   17  it  shall have become a law, provided, however, that the commissioner of
   18  transportation is authorized and directed to promulgate  any  rules  and
   19  regulations  necessary  to  implement  the  provisions of this act on or
   20  before such effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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