Bill Text: NY A09798 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a central business district toll exemption for taxicabs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-09 - referred to transportation [A09798 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09798-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9798

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 9, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. RAJKUMAR -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
          a central business district toll exemption for taxicabs

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 1704-a of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-a. Notwithstanding any provision to  the  contrary,  no  taxicab  as
     4  defined in section twelve hundred eighty of the tax law shall be charged
     5  a  central  business  district toll. Application for such toll exemption
     6  shall be made in such manner as prescribed by the Triborough bridge  and
     7  tunnel authority and shall contain such information as the authority may
     8  reasonably require.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15100-01-4