STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2516 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 23, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. RAMOS -- 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 prohibiting the authority from establishing certain limitations relating to wheeled carts and the amount of time fare paying customers may remain in certain areas of subway stations and from ejecting fare paying customers for blocking free movement 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-m to read as follows: 3 § 1266-m. Prohibition of certain actions by the authority. The author- 4 ity shall not: 5 (a) limit the size of wheeled carts allowed at facilities and convey- 6 ances of the authority; 7 (b) limit the length of time a fare paying customer may remain in a 8 paid fair zone of a subway station; 9 (c) eject fare paying customers for blocking free movement in a 10 station or on a stairway, elevator, escalator, platform or conveyance. 11 For the purposes of this section, the term "blocking free movement" 12 shall mean interfering with or impeding the movement of passengers or 13 personnel of the authority. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06084-01-3