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

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6027
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 10, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
        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  and  a half miles from any bus line of the authority and
    16  its subsidiaries.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    18  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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