Bill Text: NY A05012 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires accessible buses to be available within a service area measuring one and a half miles from any bus line of the authority or its subsidiaries.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-12 - enacting clause stricken [A05012 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05012-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5012
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 6, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Transportation
        AN  ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to the service area
          for paratransit transportation
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 15-b of the transportation law, as
     2  amended  by  chapter  385  of  the  laws  of 1985, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    4. Accessible buses. The system shall include access by transportation
     5  disabled persons, including persons in wheelchairs,  to  not  less  than
     6  sixty-five  percent  of  buses  in  the  regularly operated fleet of the
     7  authority, which shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate
     8  their use by transportation disabled persons. To  meet  this  sixty-five
     9  percent  requirement,  all buses purchased, leased, or otherwise brought
    10  newly into service on the bus lines of the  authority  and  its  subsid-
    11  iaries,  except  buses  leased  or otherwise put into service to relieve
    12  temporary, unplanned shortages of buses in service, shall be  accessible
    13  to transportation disabled persons until the sixty-five percent require-
    14  ment  is met.  Accessible buses shall be available within a service area
    15  measuring one and a half miles from any bus line of  the  authority  and
    16  its subsidiaries.
    17    § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 15-c of the transportation law, as added
    18  by chapter 61 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
    19    4. Required level of fixed-route accessibility. a. Each transportation
    20  provider  shall  provide access to one hundred percent of its regularly-
    21  operated buses that provide local,  fixed-route  service.  To  implement
    22  this  requirement  on  and after the effective date of this section, all
    23  buses purchased, leased or otherwise brought into  service  on  the  bus
    24  lines  of each transportation provider shall be lift-equipped except any
    25  bus which a provider has under contract of purchase on July first, nine-
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  teen hundred ninety for delivery after  that  date.  Such  lift-equipped
     2  buses  shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate their use
     3  by transit-disabled persons.
     4    b.  The  provisions of paragraph a of this subdivision shall not apply
     5  to buses that are purchased, leased or otherwise  brought  into  service
     6  that have a useful life of six years or less.
     7    c. Accessible buses shall be available within a service area measuring
     8  one  and a half miles from any bus line of the authority and its subsid-
     9  iaries.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    11  have become a law.