Bill Text: NY S04424 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires all toll plazas contain at least one cash lane where electronic toll collection systems are installed.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S04424 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S04424-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4424 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 11, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to requiring all toll plazas contain at least one cash lane The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 391 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended to 2 read as follows: 3 § 391. [Rates of toll] Tolls on motor vehicles. 1. Where a different 4 rate is not otherwise prescribed or permitted by law, any person or 5 corporation maintaining a plank road, turnpike road or bridge and 6 authorized, or which shall be hereafter authorized, to receive tolls for 7 the passage of motor vehicles over the same, may charge and receive for 8 each and every motor vehicle propelled by any power other than animal 9 power, passing over the same, a toll rate not greater than the maximum 10 rate allowed by law to be charged and received for the passage of a 11 vehicle drawn over such road or bridge by two animals, provided that for 12 such motor vehicles designed to carry only two persons the rate of toll 13 charged or received shall not exceed the maximum rate allowed by law to 14 be charged and received for the passage of a vehicle drawn over such 15 road or bridge, without a load, by a single animal. 16 2. Any person, authority, or corporation maintaining a plank road, 17 turnpike road or bridge within the state who is authorized, or which 18 shall be hereafter authorized, to receive tolls for the passage of motor 19 vehicles over the same shall have at each toll plaza at least one cash 20 lane available for the collection of tolls and fares where electronic 21 toll collection systems, as defined in subdivision twelve of section 22 twenty-nine hundred eighty-five of the public authorities law, are 23 installed. 24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07824-01-9
