Bill Text: NY S07297 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the imposition and collection of tolls for the passage of motor vehicles over highways in a city having a population of one million or more.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-09 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S07297 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S07297-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7297
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      May 9, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to  prohibiting
         the  imposition of a toll or fee for passage of a motor vehicle over a
         highway within a city having a population of one million or more
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  391 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended to
    2  read as follows:
    3    S 391. Rates of toll on motor vehicles. 1. Where a different  rate  is
    4  not  otherwise prescribed or permitted by law, any person or corporation
    5  maintaining a plank road, turnpike road or  bridge  and  authorized,  or
    6  which shall be hereafter authorized, to receive tolls for the passage of
    7  motor  vehicles over the same, may charge and receive for each and every
    8  motor vehicle propelled by any power other than  animal  power,  passing
    9  over  the same, a toll rate not greater than the maximum rate allowed by
   10  law to be charged and received for the passage of a vehicle  drawn  over
   11  such  road  or bridge by two animals, provided that for such motor vehi-
   12  cles designed to carry only two persons the  rate  of  toll  charged  or
   13  received  shall not exceed the maximum rate allowed by law to be charged
   14  and received for the passage of  a  vehicle  drawn  over  such  road  or
   15  bridge, without a load, by a single animal.
   16    2.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  PROVISION OF LAW TO THE CONTRARY, NO PERSON,
   17  CORPORATION, PUBLIC AUTHORITY, MUNICIPALITY, THE STATE, NOR  ANY  AGENCY
   18  OF  THE  STATE OR OF A POLITICAL SUBDIVISION THEREOF SHALL BE AUTHORIZED
   19  TO IMPOSE OR RECEIVE A TOLL OR FEE FOR PASSAGE OF A MOTOR  VEHICLE  OVER
   20  ANY HIGHWAY WITHIN A CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE.
   21    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15090-01-4