Bill Text: NY S03701 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the adjudication of toll collection violations.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-29 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S03701 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-S03701-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3701 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 29, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to adjudication of toll collection violations The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 2985 of the public authorities law is amended by 2 adding three new subdivisions 15, 16 and 17 to read as follows: 3 15. In addition to any monetary liability that may be imposed pursuant 4 to this section, a public authority that operates a toll highway, bridge 5 or tunnel facility is hereby authorized and empowered to impose an 6 administrative fee or fees on an owner, an operator or an account holder 7 that has violated toll collection regulations. 8 16. Any notice required to be sent pursuant to this section by first 9 class mail may instead be sent, with consent, by electronic means of 10 communication. A manual or automatic record of electronic communications 11 prepared in this ordinary course of business shall be adequate evidence 12 of electronic notice. 13 17. The New York state thruway authority and the New York state bridge 14 authority are authorized to adopt rules and regulations to establish an 15 administrative tribunal to adjudicate the liability of owners for 16 violation of toll collection regulations as defined in and in accordance 17 with the provisions of this section and the applicable toll regulations 18 of such authorities. Such tribunal shall have, with respect to violation 19 of toll collection regulations of such authorities, non-exclusive juris- 20 diction over violations of the rules and regulations which may from time 21 to time be established by such authorities in accordance with the 22 provisions of this section. Violations shall be heard and determined in 23 the county in which the violation is alleged to have occurred or in the 24 county in which the public authority has its primary or regional admin- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05193-01-5S. 3701 2 1 istrative offices and regulations may provide for the conduct of hear- 2 ings via videoconferencing. 3 § 2. Subdivision 10 of section 1209-a of the public authorities law, 4 as amended by section 2 of part UU of chapter 56 of the laws of 2024, is 5 amended to read as follows: 6 10. Funds. [All] Except for penalties, evaded tolls and other charges 7 collected and paid to the triborough bridge and tunnel authority in 8 accordance with the provisions of section twenty-nine hundred eighty- 9 five of this chapter, all penalties collected pursuant to the provisions 10 of this section shall be paid to the authority to the credit of a trans- 11 it crime fund which the authority shall establish. Any sums in this fund 12 shall be used to pay for programs selected by the board of the metropol- 13 itan transportation authority, in its discretion, to reduce the inci- 14 dence of crimes and infractions on transit and railroad facilities, or 15 to improve the enforcement of laws against such crimes and infractions. 16 Such funds shall be in addition to and not in substitution for any funds 17 provided by the state or any political subdivision within the metropol- 18 itan commuter transportation district as established by section twelve 19 hundred sixty-two of this article for such purposes. 20 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 21 it shall have become a law.
