Bill Text: NY S06627 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes a 90 day application period for the issuance of temporary authority or emergency temporary authority that relates to a specific event in the state, except when event will be held in less than 90 days; specifies what must be included in an application and the commissioner's responsibilities with respect to such application.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-17 - referred to transportation [S06627 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S06627-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6627
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 19, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sen. MAZIARZ -- 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  issuance  of
         temporary authority
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 153 of the transportation law, is amended by adding
    2  a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
    3    10. (A) AN APPLICATION FOR TEMPORARY AUTHORITY OR EMERGENCY  TEMPORARY
    4  AUTHORITY  THAT  RELATES  TO A SPECIFIC EVENT SCHEDULED WITHIN THE STATE
    5  MUST BE SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT AT LEAST NINETY DAYS  PRIOR  TO  THE
    6  START OF SUCH SCHEDULED EVENT; PROVIDED HOWEVER, THAT THE DEPARTMENT MAY
    7  ALLOW  THE  SUBMISSION OF SUCH AN APPLICATION AT LEAST THIRTY DAYS PRIOR
    8  TO THE START OF A SCHEDULED EVENT SO LONG AS THE SPONSOR  OF  THE  EVENT
    9  DEMONSTRATES TO THE SATISFACTION OF THE DEPARTMENT THAT THE DATES OF THE
   10  EVENT  PRECLUDE  THE  SPONSOR  FROM  SUBMITTING THE APPLICATION AT LEAST
   11  NINETY DAYS PRIOR TO THE EVENT.
   12    (B) WITHIN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS OF RECEIPT OF ANY APPLICATION FOR  TEMPO-
   13  RARY  AUTHORITY OR EMERGENCY TEMPORARY AUTHORITY, THE COMMISSIONER SHALL
   14  PROVIDE CONSPICUOUS NOTICE  OF  SUCH  APPLICATION  ON  THE  DEPARTMENT'S
   15  WEBSITE  AND,  IF SUCH APPLICATION RELATES TO A SPECIFIC EVENT SCHEDULED
   16  WITHIN THE STATE, MAKE OTHER REASONABLE EFFORTS TO  NOTIFY  CARRIERS  IN
   17  THE  GEOGRAPHIC  AREA  OF  THE SCHEDULED EVENT OF THE SUBMISSION OF SUCH
   18  APPLICATION. THE NOTICE REQUIRED BY THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL INCLUDE, AT A
   19  MINIMUM, (I) THE APPLICANT'S NAME AND ADDRESS, (II) THE TYPE OF APPLICA-
   20  TION, AND (III) THE ROUTES OR TERRITORY REQUESTED. IF THE APPLICATION IS
   21  FOR A SPECIFIC EVENT SCHEDULED WITHIN THE STATE, THEN SUCH NOTICE  SHALL
   22  ALSO  INCLUDE  THE  NAME  OF  SUCH EVENT, THE LOCATION AND DATES OF SUCH
   23  EVENT, THE SPONSOR OF THE EVENT, AND THE NAME, ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER AND
   24  EMAIL ADDRESS OF THE EVENT SPONSOR OR THE  EVENT  SPONSOR'S  BROKER  FOR
   25  TRANSPORTATION SERVICES IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH EVENT.
   26    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
   27  have become a law; provided however  that,  effective  immediately,  the
   28  department  of  transportation  is authorized and directed to add, amend
   29  and/or repeal any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
   30  this act on its effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD14059-01-4