Bill Text: NY S00738 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Renames the Newkirk Avenue subway station on the IRT Nostrand Avenue line the "Newkirk Avenue -- Little Haiti station".
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S00738 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S00738-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 738 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 6, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT in relation to renaming the Newkirk Avenue subway station on the IRT Nostrand Avenue line the "Newkirk Avenue - Little Haiti station" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Upon a determination by the Metropolitan Transportation 2 Authority or the New York City Transit Authority that sufficient funds 3 have been committed to it specifically for such purpose, the 4 Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the public benefit corporation 5 created by section 1263 of the public authorities law, and the New 6 York City Transit Authority, the public benefit corporation created by 7 section 1201 of the public authorities law, shall use such specif- 8 ically committed funds to rename the Newkirk Avenue subway station on 9 the IRT Nostrand Avenue line of the New York city subway to the Newkirk 10 Avenue - Little Haiti station. The MTA shall ensure that all signs 11 and any other items issued by the MTA are updated to accurately 12 reflect the new name of the station within ten months. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, and shall be deemed 14 repealed after the signs and any other items are accurately updated. 15 The chief executive officer of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority 16 or president of the New York City Transit Authority shall notify the 17 legislative bill drafting commission upon the completion of such updates 18 in order that the commission may maintain an accurate and timely effec- 19 tive data base of the official text of the laws of the state of New York 20 in furtherance of effectuating the provisions of section 44 of the 21 legislative law and section 70-b of the public officers law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03271-01-3