Bill Text: NY S01616 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the metropolitan transportation authority to create an expired fare transfer policy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-12-18 - SIGNED CHAP.483 [S01616 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S01616-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1616--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 10, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- commit- tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom- mitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the metropolitan transportation authority to establish an expired fare transfer policy; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof 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 § 1266-k. Expired fare transfer policy. Notwithstanding any other 4 provision of law to the contrary, the authority shall, within ninety 5 days of the effective date of this section, establish an expired fare 6 transfer policy that may be amended from time to time. Such policy 7 shall provide any person who purchases a fare the ability to transfer 8 any remaining balance for two years after such fare is deemed expired. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 10 deemed repealed on December 31, 2022. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03495-03-7
