Bill Text: NY S06027 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires accessible buses to be available within a service area measuring one and a half miles from any bus line of the authority or its subsidiaries.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S06027 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S06027-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6027--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 10, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  ORTT, GALLIVAN, KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
          portation  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to the service  area
          for paratransit transportation
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 15-b of the transportation law, as
     2  amended by chapter 385 of the laws  of  1985,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    4. Accessible buses. The system shall include access by transportation
     5  disabled  persons,  including  persons  in wheelchairs, to not less than
     6  sixty-five percent of buses in  the  regularly  operated  fleet  of  the
     7  authority, which shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate
     8  their  use  by  transportation disabled persons. To meet this sixty-five
     9  percent requirement, all buses purchased, leased, or  otherwise  brought
    10  newly  into  service  on  the bus lines of the authority and its subsid-
    11  iaries, except buses leased or otherwise put  into  service  to  relieve
    12  temporary,  unplanned shortages of buses in service, shall be accessible
    13  to transportation disabled persons until the sixty-five percent require-
    14  ment is met.  Accessible buses shall be available within a service  area
    15  measuring  one  a  half miles from any bus line of the authority and its
    16  subsidiaries.
    17    § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 15-c of the transportation law, as added
    18  by chapter 61 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
    19    4. Required level of fixed-route accessibility. a. Each transportation
    20  provider shall provide access to one hundred percent of  its  regularly-
    21  operated  buses  that  provide  local, fixed-route service. To implement
    22  this requirement on and after the effective date of  this  section,  all
    23  buses  purchased,  leased  or  otherwise brought into service on the bus
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  lines of each transportation provider shall be lift-equipped except  any
     2  bus which a provider has under contract of purchase on July first, nine-
     3  teen  hundred  ninety  for  delivery after that date. Such lift-equipped
     4  buses  shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate their use
     5  by transit-disabled persons.
     6    b. The provisions of paragraph a of this subdivision shall  not  apply
     7  to  buses  that  are purchased, leased or otherwise brought into service
     8  that have a useful life of six years or less.
     9    c. Accessible buses shall be available within a service area measuring
    10  one and a half miles from any bus line of the authority and its  subsid-
    11  iaries.
    12    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    13  have become a law.