Bill Text: NY S04315 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes a county board of supervisors to require that a ferry operating within such county transport without charge or fee of any kind, any soldier, sailor or marine in uniform during their term of enlistment in the service of the United States.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-24 - PRINT NUMBER 4315A [S04315 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04315-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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            S. 4315--A                                            A. 6365--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                SENATE - ASSEMBLY

                                      March 7, 2019
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        IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
          ed,  and  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transporta-
          tion -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation  in  accordance
          with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once  and  referred
          to  the Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on
          Transportation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to providing that a  county
          board of supervisors shall be authorized to require that a ferry shall
          carry  without charge or fee of any kind for transportation any member
          of the United States armed forces in  uniform  during  their  term  of
          enlistment in the service of the United States

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 131-g of the highway law, as amended by chapter 897
     2  of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 131-g. Regulation of toll rates. 1. Such boards shall have power  by
     4  a  vote  of two-thirds of all the members elected to authorize an alter-
     5  ation, reduction or change of the rates of toll charged or  received  by
     6  any turnpike, plank or gravel road, or other toll road within such coun-
     7  ty,  or by any bridge company or ferry within such county, or, if within
     8  more than one county, then by joint action with the supervisors of  such
     9  counties,  provided such alteration shall be asked for by the directors,
    10  trustees or owners of such road, bridge or ferry; but that  no  increase
    11  of  toll  shall be so authorized unless notice of such proposed increase
    12  shall have been published once each week for three successive weeks in a
    13  newspaper having general circulation in each town in which such road  or

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  bridge  is  located  or  in  which such ferry is operated, commencing at
     2  least thirty days prior to the  date  of  such  authorization;  and  any
     3  alteration  in  rates of toll authorized by any board of supervisors may
     4  be  changed or modified by any subsequent board, on their own motion, by
     5  a like vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to such board;  but
     6  nothing  [herein]  in this section contained shall affect or abridge the
     7  powers of any city.
     8    2. In the case of rates of toll for a  ferry,  such  boards  shall  be
     9  authorized  to  adopt  a  local  law to provide that a ferry shall carry
    10  without charge or fee of any  kind  for  transportation  between  points
    11  wholly  within  the  state  of  New York any member of the United States
    12  armed forces in uniform during their term of enlistment in  the  service
    13  of  the  United States.   Provided, however, that the provisions of this
    14  subdivision shall not apply to a ferry owned or operated  by  a  munici-
    15  pality  that is subject to the provisions of section one hundred four of
    16  the transportation law.
    17    § 2. Severability. The provisions of this act shall be  severable  and
    18  if  any  portion  thereof  or the applicability thereof to any person or
    19  circumstances shall be held invalid, the remainder of this act  and  the
    20  application thereof shall not be affected thereby.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.