Bill Text: NY A07016 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to install and reasonably maintain proper operation of surveillance cameras in areas frequented by passengers at all subway stations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-11-21 - signed chap.603 [A07016 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07016-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7016--B

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 19, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN, DICKENS, GALEF, COLTON -- read
          once  and  referred  to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and
          Commissions -- recommitted to the Committee on Corporations,  Authori-
          ties  and  Commissions  in  accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted  to  said  committee -- again reported from said committee
          with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to  said
          committee

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the
          metropolitan  transportation authority to install surveillance cameras
          at subway platforms

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

     1    Section  1.  This  act  shall  be known and may be cited as "Sedrick's
     2  law".
     3    § 2. The public authorities law is amended by  adding  a  new  section
     4  1266-l to read as follows:
     5    §  1266-l.  Surveillance cameras; subway stations. The authority shall
     6  install and reasonably maintain proper operation of surveillance cameras
     7  at all subway stations operated  by  the  authority.  Such  surveillance
     8  cameras  may be placed in all areas, including but not limited to, areas
     9  frequented by passengers and all train platforms.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    11  it shall have become a law.



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