Bill Text: NY A10001 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides for a 75-25 percent split in the New York city transit authority's operating surplus between the authority and the Metropolitan transit authority where previously the split was 50-50. [Track Bill]

Status: 2012-05-15 - reported referred to ways and means [A10001 Detail]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         10001
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      May 1, 2012
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       Introduced by M. of A. BRENNAN, TOBACCO -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
       AN  ACT  to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the formula
         for New York city transit authority operating surplus revenue
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of subdivision 2 of section 1219-a of the
    2  public authorities law, as amended by section 19 of part O of chapter 61
    3  of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (b) Promptly upon the making of the  certification  of  its  operating
    5  surplus, if any, for its fiscal year ending December thirty-first, nine-
    6  teen  hundred  seventy-two  and for each of its subsequent fiscal years,
    7  triborough bridge and tunnel authority, at the direction of metropolitan
    8  transportation authority, shall transfer such operating surplus  (1)  to
    9  the  metropolitan  transportation authority for deposit into one or more
   10  funds or accounts to be used as contemplated by section  twelve  hundred
   11  seventy-d  of this article, or (2) to the authority and the metropolitan
   12  transportation authority solely for application to the  payment  of  the
   13  expenses  of  operation.  For  purposes  of determining the proportional
   14  allocation of the operating surplus as between  the  authority  and  the
   15  metropolitan  transportation  authority,  the  following  formula  shall
   16  apply: (i) twenty-four million dollars plus [fifty] SEVENTY-FIVE percen-
   17  tum of the balance of such operating surplus shall be allocable  to  the
   18  authority,  and  (ii)  the  remainder shall be allocable to metropolitan
   19  transportation authority on behalf of the commuter railroads operated by
   20  it, by its subsidiary corporations or by  others  under  joint  arrange-
   21  ments.
   22    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
   23  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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