Bill Text: NY S06764 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes a no fare program for transportation on the Long Island Rail Road for police officers employed by the towns of Suffolk.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S06764 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S06764-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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           S. 6764                                                  A. 9830
                             S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 3, 2010
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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
       IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE, ALESSI --  read  once  and
         referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
       AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to authorizing a
         no  fare  program  for transportation on the Long Island Rail Road for
         police officers employed by the towns of Suffolk
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  14 of section 1266 of the public authorities
    2  law, as added by chapter 307 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read  as
    3  follows:
    4    14.  Notwithstanding  any  other provisions of law or the terms of any
    5  contract, the authority, in consultation with the Long Island Rail Road,
    6  shall establish and implement a no fare program  for  transportation  on
    7  the  Long  Island  Rail Road for police officers employed by the city of
    8  New York, county of Nassau, Nassau county villages and cities, county of
    9  Suffolk, Suffolk county  villages  AND  TOWNS,  the  division  of  state
   10  police,  the  port authority of New York and New Jersey, the Metro-North
   11  Commuter Railroad Company, the New York city housing authority  and  the
   12  New York city transit authority. In establishing such program, which has
   13  as  its goal increased protection and improved safety for its commuters,
   14  the authority and the Long Island Rail Road shall, among  other  things,
   15  consider:  (a) requiring police officers who ride without cost to regis-
   16  ter with the Long Island Rail Road as  a  condition  of  riding  without
   17  cost;  (b)  requiring such officers to indicate during such registration
   18  process their regular working hours and the Long Island Rail Road trains
   19  that such officers expect to ride; and (c)  periodically  re-registering
   20  and  re-validating such officers. The authority and the Long Island Rail
   21  Road shall also have the power to consider other  matters  necessary  to
   22  carry out the goals and objectives of this section.
   23    S 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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