Bill Text: NY A03469 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires tolls and revenues from certain bridges and tunnels in New York and New Jersey to be used to cover the costs of the construction, maintenance and operation of said bridges and tunnels.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 16-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-24 - held for consideration in corporations, authorities and commissions [A03469 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03469-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3469
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 27, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. RAIA, MONTESANO, RA, McKEVITT, McDONOUGH, GRAF,
          MALLIOTAKIS, LUPINACCI, LALOR, FINCH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, CROUCH, DiPIETRO, HAWLEY, SALADINO -- read  once
          and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commis-
          sions
        AN  ACT to amend chapter 47 of the laws of 1931, relating to bridges and
          tunnels in New York and New Jersey, in relation to requiring tolls and
          revenues from bridges and tunnels in New York and New Jersey  be  used
          to  cover  the costs of the construction, maintenance and operation of
          said bridges and tunnels
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  1 of chapter 47 of the laws of 1931, relating to
     2  bridges and tunnels in New York and New Jersey, is amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    Section  1. The state of New Jersey by appropriate legislation concur-
     5  ring herein, the states of New York and New Jersey  hereby  declare  and
     6  agree  that  the  vehicular  traffic moving across the interstate waters
     7  within the port of New York district, created by the  compact  of  April
     8  thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-one, between the said states, which said
     9  phrase "interstate waters" as used in this act shall include the portion
    10  of  the  Hudson river within the said port of New York district north of
    11  the New Jersey state line, constitutes a  general  movement  of  traffic
    12  which  follows  the most accessible and practicable routes, and that the
    13  users of each bridge or tunnel over or under the said waters benefit  by
    14  the existence of every other bridge or tunnel since all such bridges and
    15  tunnels  as  a group facilitate the movement of such traffic and relieve
    16  congestion at each of the several bridges and tunnels.  Accordingly  the
    17  two  said  states,  in  the  interest  of  the users of such bridges and
    18  tunnels and the general public,  hereby  agree  that  the  construction,
    19  maintenance,  operation  and  control  of  all such bridges and tunnels,
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  heretofore or hereafter authorized by the  two  said  states,  shall  be
     2  unified  under  the  port  of New York authority (hereinafter called the
     3  port authority), to the end that the tolls and other revenues  therefrom
     4  shall  be  [applied so far as practicable] used exclusively to cover the
     5  costs of the construction, maintenance and operation of said bridges and
     6  tunnels as a group [and economies in operation effected], it  being  the
     7  policy  of  the two said states that such bridges and tunnels shall as a
     8  group be in all respects self-sustaining.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect upon the enactment  into  law  by  the
    10  state  of  New  Jersey of legislation having an identical effect; but if
    11  the state of New Jersey shall have  already  enacted  such  legislation,
    12  then  this act shall take effect immediately and provided that the state
    13  of New Jersey shall notify the legislative bill drafting commission upon
    14  the occurrence of the enactment of the provisions provided for  in  this
    15  act  in  order  that  the commission may maintain an accurate and timely
    16  effective data base of the official text of the laws of the state of New
    17  York in furtherance of effecting the provisions of  section  44  of  the
    18  legislative law and section 70-b of the public officers law.