Bill Text: NY S04182 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: DELETE Requires the metropolitan transportation authority, the New York city office of emergency management, and the port authority of New York and New Jersey to report to the governor and the legislature on weather-related evacuation capabilities; requires the metropolitan transportation authority to certify as to its facilities and equipment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS [S04182 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S04182-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4182
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    April 15, 2009
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       Introduced by Sens. FLANAGAN, LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed,
         and  when  printed  to  be committed to the Committee on Corporations,
         Authorities and Commissions
       AN ACT to require the metropolitan  transportation  authority,  the  New
         York  city  office  of emergency management, and the port authority of
         New York and New Jersey to report to the governor and the  legislature
         on weather-related evacuation capabilities
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The metropolitan transportation authority, with respect  to
    2  said  corporation  and  its  subsidiaries, the Long Island railroad, the
    3  metro-north railroad,  the  metropolitan  suburban  bus  authority,  the
    4  Staten  Island  rapid transit operating authority, the Triborough bridge
    5  and tunnel authority, the  New  York  city  transit  authority  and  its
    6  subsidiary, the Manhattan and Bronx surface transit operating authority,
    7  or  any  other  agency or corporation that may come under the control of
    8  the authority, or within their custody or control, and any subsidiary of
    9  any of the foregoing, shall (a) report to the governor and the  legisla-
   10  ture,  within  ninety  days after this act shall have become law, on the
   11  capabilities of all of the foregoing entities to respond to the  contin-
   12  gencies  and  exigencies  of  any  evacuation  of  all or any portion or
   13  portions of the city of New York, the county of Nassau, or the county of
   14  Suffolk, necessitated or occasioned by  any  weather-related  condition,
   15  event,  or  emergency and; (b) shall certify the nature, number, extent,
   16  and capacities and capabilities of its "authority  facilities",  "trans-
   17  portation  facilities",  and  "equipment",  as defined in section twelve
   18  hundred sixty-one of the public authorities law.
   19    S 2. The New York city office of emergency management shall report  to
   20  the  governor  and  the  legislature,  within ninety days after this act
   21  shall have become law, on the capabilities of said office to respond  to
   22  the contingencies and exigencies of any evacuation of all or any portion
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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       S. 4182                             2
    1  or portions of the city of New York, the county of Nassau, or the county
    2  of Suffolk, necessitated or occasioned by any weather-related condition,
    3  event, or emergency.
    4    S 3. The port authority of New York and New Jersey shall report to the
    5  governor  and  the  legislature, within ninety days after this act shall
    6  have become law, on the capabilities of said authority to respond to the
    7  contingencies and exigencies of any evacuation of all or any portion  or
    8  portions of the city of New York, the county of Nassau, or the county of
    9  Suffolk,  necessitated  or  occasioned by any weather-related condition,
   10  event, or emergency.
   11    S 4. This act shall take effect  immediately;  provided  that  section
   12  three  of  this act shall take effect upon the enactment into law by the
   13  state of New Jersey of  legislation  having  an  identical  effect  with
   14  section  three  of  this  act; but if the state of New Jersey shall have
   15  already enacted such legislation, then section three of this  act  shall
   16  take  effect  immediately;  and provided further that the chairperson of
   17  the port authority of New York and New Jersey shall notify the  legisla-
   18  tive  bill  drafting  commission upon the occurrence of the enactment of
   19  the provisions provided for in section three of this act in  order  that
   20  said  commission may maintain an accurate and timely effective data base
   21  of the official text of the laws of the state of New York in furtherance
   22  of effectuating the provisions of section 44 of the legislative law  and
   23  section 70-b of the public officers law.