Bill Text: NY A04047 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires cash lanes be made available at certain toll barriers.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-14 - ordered to third reading rules cal.270 [A04047 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A04047-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4047 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y January 29, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. FARRELL -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring cash lanes to be made available at certain toll barriers THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new 2 section 1266-k to read as follows: 3 S 1266-K. PLACEMENT OF ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION SYSTEM LANES AT 4 METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY TOLL BARRIERS LOCATED WITHIN A 5 CITY HAVING A POPULATION OF ONE MILLION OR MORE. THE CHAIRMAN OF THE 6 AUTHORITY SHALL ESTABLISH, BY RULE OR REGULATION, REQUIREMENTS FOR THE 7 PLACEMENT OF AT LEAST ONE CASH LANE TO BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR THE 8 COLLECTION OF TOLLS AND FARES WHERE ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION SYSTEMS, 9 AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TWELVE OF SECTION TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY- 10 FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER, HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED AT THE TOLL BARRIERS OPERATED 11 BY THE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY AT A TOLL HIGHWAY, BRIDGE, 12 TUNNEL OR OTHER THOROUGHFARE LOCATED WITHIN A CITY HAVING A POPULATION 13 OF ONE MILLION OR MORE. SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS SHALL SPECIFY THE 14 GENERAL LOCATION OF THE ROADWAY LANES IN WHICH CASH LANES SHALL BE 15 LOCATED. 16 S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 17 it shall have become a law, provided, however, that the chairman of the 18 metropolitan transportation authority is authorized and directed to 19 promulgate any rules and regulations necessary to implement the 20 provisions of this act on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08219-01-5