Bill Text: NY S08141 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Requires the MTA to hold public hearings prior to certain transportation facility closures; provides that the MTA hold a public hearing on any proposed closings due to construction, improvement, reconstruction or rehabilitation where such facility will be out-of-service for ninety days or longer.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-12-28 - APPROVAL MEMO.23 [S08141 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S08141-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Requires the MTA to hold public hearings prior to certain transportation facility closures; provides that the MTA hold a public hearing on any proposed closings due to construction, improvement, reconstruction or rehabilitation where such facility will be out-of-service for ninety days or longer.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2018-12-28 - APPROVAL MEMO.23 [S08141 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S08141-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8141 IN SENATE April 6, 2018 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring that the MTA provide ninety days' notice to community boards of subway station closings due to repairs and/or renovations The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new 2 section 1277-b to read as follows: 3 § 1277-b. Notice of station repairs and renovations. The authority 4 shall provide ninety days' notice to community boards within the city of 5 New York when a subway station will be closed for repairs and/or reno- 6 vations within such community board district or within a one-half mile 7 radius of such community board district. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD15335-01-8