Bill Text: NY S05133 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes a county board of supervisors to require that a ferry operating within such county transport without charge or fee of any kind, any soldier, sailor or marine in uniform during their term of enlistment in the service of the state or the United States.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-06-04 - referred to transportation [S05133 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05133-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 5133                                                  A. 6547
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                SENATE - ASSEMBLY
                                      March 9, 2017
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        IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed,  and  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transporta-
          tion
        IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once  and  referred
          to the Committee on Transportation
        AN  ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to providing that a county
          board of supervisors shall be authorized to require that a ferry oper-
          ating within such county shall carry without charge or fee of any kind
          for transportation any soldier, sailor or  marine  in  uniform  during
          their  term  of  enlistment  in the service of the state or the United
          States
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 131-g of the highway law, as amended by chapter 897
     2  of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
     3    §  131-g. Regulation of toll rates. 1. Such boards shall have power by
     4  a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to authorize  an  alter-
     5  ation,  reduction  or change of the rates of toll charged or received by
     6  any turnpike, plank or gravel road, or other toll road within such coun-
     7  ty, or by any bridge company or ferry within such county, or, if  within
     8  more  than one county, then by joint action with the supervisors of such
     9  counties, provided such alteration shall be asked for by the  directors,
    10  trustees  or  owners of such road, bridge or ferry; but that no increase
    11  of toll shall be so authorized unless notice of such  proposed  increase
    12  shall have been published once each week for three successive weeks in a
    13  newspaper  having general circulation in each town in which such road or
    14  bridge is located or in which such  ferry  is  operated,  commencing  at
    15  least  thirty  days  prior  to  the  date of such authorization; and any
    16  alteration in rates of toll authorized by any board of  supervisors  may
    17  be  changed or modified by any subsequent board, on their own motion, by
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 5133                             2                            A. 6547
     1  a like vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to such board;  but
     2  nothing herein contained shall affect or abridge the powers of any city.
     3    2.  In the case of the rates of toll for a ferry, such boards shall be
     4  authorized to provide that a ferry shall carry without charge or fee  of
     5  any  kind  for transportation any soldier, sailor or marine during their
     6  term of enlistment in the service of the state  or  the  United  States.
     7  Such boards are authorized to adopt local laws required to implement and
     8  administer this subdivision.
     9    §  2.  Severability. The provisions of this act shall be severable and
    10  if any portion thereof or the applicability thereof  to  any  person  or
    11  circumstances  shall  be held invalid, the remainder of this act and the
    12  application thereof shall not be affected thereby.
    13    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.