Bill Text: NY S00159 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Provides that for the purpose of eliminating the financial burden of two fares on the commuter, free transfers shall be given by the New York City transit authority from the terminal point of all subway lines to all intersecting omnibus lines and from the terminal point of all omnibus lines to all intersecting subway lines operated by such authority.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S00159 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S00159-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          159
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2009
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen.  KRUGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
       AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to  free  trans-
         fers  from  the  terminal  points of subway lines to omnibus lines and
         from the terminal points of omnibus lines to subway lines operated  by
         the New York city transit authority
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  Subdivision 1 of section 1205 of  the  public  authorities
    2  law,  as  amended by chapter 717 of the laws of 1967, is amended to read
    3  as follows:
    4    1.  Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the terms of  any
    5  contract  or  franchise, the authority shall have the power at all times
    6  to fix or adjust the rate or rates of fare to be charged for the use  of
    7  any transit facility operated by the authority as may in the judgment of
    8  the  authority  be necessary to maintain the operations of the authority
    9  on a self-sustaining basis, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT WHATEVER THE RATE OF
   10  FARE IS FIXED AT, AND FOR  THE  PURPOSE  OF  ELIMINATING  THE  FINANCIAL
   11  BURDEN  OF TWO FARES ON THE COMMUTER, FREE TRANSFERS SHALL BE GIVEN FROM
   12  THE TERMINAL POINT OF ALL SUBWAY LINES TO ALL INTERSECTING OMNIBUS LINES
   13  AND FROM THE TERMINAL POINT OF ALL OMNIBUS  LINES  TO  ALL  INTERSECTING
   14  SUBWAY LINES OPERATED BY THE AUTHORITY.  The operations of the authority
   15  shall  be  deemed  to be on a self-sustaining basis, as required by this
   16  title, when the authority is able to pay from revenue,  from  any  funds
   17  granted  or  transferred  to  the authority pursuant to any provision of
   18  law, including funds granted pursuant to the provisions of section nine-
   19  ty-eight-b of the general municipal law, and from any other funds  actu-
   20  ally  available  to  the authority, including the proceeds of borrowings
   21  for working capital purposes, the expenses of operation of the authority
   22  as the same shall become due.
   23    S 2.  This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day  after  it  shall
   24  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD02043-01-9
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