Bill Text: NY S02963 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of transportation to keep open the high occupancy vehicle lane on certain areas of I-278 for twenty-four hour periods.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-05-21 - referred to transportation [S02963 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S02963-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2963
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 28, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  SAVINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT directing the department of transportation to keep certain  road-
         ways open
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. 1.  The department of transportation is directed  to  allow
    2  any high-occupancy vehicle traveling northbound and southbound on Inter-
    3  state  278  between the Goethals Bridge to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge,
    4  known as the Staten Island Expressway,  to  utilize  the  high-occupancy
    5  vehicle lane at all times, excepting periods of road work and repairs.
    6    2. As used in this section, "high-occupancy vehicle" is defined as any
    7  automobile containing three or more people.
    8    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    9  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07998-01-3