Bill Text: NY S04136 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority to make reduced fare tokens available to residents of Kings county for crossing over the Verrazano-Narrows bridge; provides that such fare shall be at a reduced cost of eighty per centum of the regular crossing fare.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S04136 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S04136-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4136
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 14, 2009
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       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 providing for
         reduced fare tokens for residents of Kings county who use the Verraza-
         no-Narrows bridge
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  Section 553-f of the public authorities law, as amended by
    2  chapter 2 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S  553-f.  Tokens.  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law,
    4  but subject to agreements with noteholders and bondholders, the authori-
    5  ty shall offer for sale tokens with respect to residents of the [county]
    6  COUNTIES of Richmond AND KINGS and may,  except  as  otherwise  provided
    7  herein,  regulate  the use thereof. Tokens for residents of the [county]
    8  COUNTIES of Richmond AND KINGS shall entitle the purchaser to  crossings
    9  over the Verrazano-Narrows bridge at a reduced cost of eighty per centum
   10  of  the  regular  crossing  fare imposed on nonresidents of the [county]
   11  COUNTIES of Richmond AND KINGS.  In the event the authority shall impose
   12  a surcharge in addition to the  regular  toll  for  crossings  over  the
   13  Verrazano-Narrows  bridge,  such surcharge shall not be deemed a part of
   14  the regular crossing fare for purposes of this section, and  the  tokens
   15  offered  for  sale to the residents of the [county] COUNTIES of Richmond
   16  AND KINGS as herein provided shall  also  entitle  the  purchaser  to  a
   17  permanent  exemption from the payment of any such surcharge in an amount
   18  equal to the amount of any such surcharge imposed during  calendar  year
   19  nineteen  hundred  ninety-three.  Application  for  such tokens or other
   20  payment devices shall be made  in  such  manner  as  prescribed  by  the
   21  authority  and  shall  contain  such  information  as  the authority may
   22  reasonably require.
   23    S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth 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.
                                                                  LBD11156-01-9