Bill Text: NY S07729 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for the suspension of the collection of tolls on public roads during a state declaration of disaster emergency on the New York state thruway.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-22 - PRINT NUMBER 7729B [S07729 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07729-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7729--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    October 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  CHU, RAMOS -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules --  recommitted
          to  the  Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
          sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the suspen-
          sion of tolls on public roads during a state declaration  of  disaster
          emergency

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 361 of the public
     2  authorities law, as amended by chapter 621  of  the  laws  of  1998,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  In  addition  to  the powers conferred by the vehicle and traffic
     5  law, the authority is hereby authorized to  promulgate  such  rules  and
     6  regulations for the use and occupancy of the thruway as may be necessary
     7  and  proper  for the public safety and convenience, for the preservation
     8  of its property and for the collection of  tolls  and  provided  further
     9  that  the  authority,  in  consultation with the departments of environ-
    10  mental conservation and transportation, is hereby authorized to  promul-
    11  gate  rules  and regulations necessary to implement a heavy duty vehicle
    12  roadside inspection program pursuant to section 19-0320 of the  environ-
    13  mental  conservation law. Such rules and regulations shall authorize and
    14  require the suspension of the collection of such tolls upon  any  person
    15  using  and  occupying public roads on which tolls are collected during a
    16  state declared emergency evacuation declared as a result of a natural or
    17  a man-made disaster, and subject  to  a  required  evacuation  for  such
    18  disaster,  during  a state declaration of disaster emergency pursuant to
    19  section twenty-eight of the executive law.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    21  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    22  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    23  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    24  completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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