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                                  4947

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 13, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

AN  ACT  to  require  the metropolitan transportation authority, the New
  York city office of emergency management, and the  port  authority  of
  New  York and New Jersey to report to the governor and the legislature
  on weather-related evacuation capabilities

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. The metropolitan transportation authority, with respect to
said corporation and its subsidiaries, the  Long  Island  railroad,  the
metro-north  railroad,  the  metropolitan  suburban  bus  authority, the
Staten Island rapid transit operating authority, the  Triborough  bridge
and  tunnel  authority,  the  New  York  city  transit authority and its
subsidiary, the Manhattan and Bronx surface transit operating authority,
or any other agency or corporation that may come under  the  control  of
the authority, or within their custody or control, and any subsidiary of
any  of the foregoing, shall (a) report to the governor and the legisla-
ture, within ninety days after this act shall have become  law,  on  the
capabilities  of all of the foregoing entities to respond to the contin-
gencies and exigencies of any  evacuation  of  all  or  any  portion  or
portions of the city of New York, the county of Nassau, or the county of
Suffolk,  necessitated  or  occasioned by any weather-related condition,
event, or emergency and; (b) shall certify the nature,  number,  extent,
and  capacities  and capabilities of its "authority facilities", "trans-
portation facilities", and "equipment", as  defined  in  section  twelve
hundred sixty-one of the public authorities law.
  S  2. The New York city office of emergency management shall report to
the governor and the legislature, within  ninety  days  after  this  act
shall  have become law, on the capabilities of said office to respond to
the contingencies and exigencies of any evacuation of all or any portion
or portions of the city of New York, the county of Nassau, or the county

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08117-01-3
              

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of Suffolk, necessitated or occasioned by any weather-related condition,
event, or emergency.
  S 3. The port authority of New York and New Jersey shall report to the
governor  and  the  legislature, within ninety days after this act shall
have become law, on the capabilities of said authority to respond to the
contingencies and exigencies of any evacuation of all or any portion  or
portions of the city of New York, the county of Nassau, or the county of
Suffolk,  necessitated  or  occasioned by any weather-related condition,
event, or emergency.
  S 4. This act shall take effect  immediately;  provided  that  section
three  of  this act shall take effect upon the enactment into law by the
state of New Jersey of  legislation  having  an  identical  effect  with
section  three  of  this  act; but if the state of New Jersey shall have
already enacted such legislation, then section three of this  act  shall
take  effect  immediately;  and provided further that the chairperson of
the port authority of New York and New Jersey shall notify the  legisla-
tive  bill  drafting  commission upon the occurrence of the enactment of
the provisions provided for in section three of this act in  order  that
said  commission may maintain an accurate and timely effective data base
of the official text of the laws of the state of New York in furtherance
of effectuating the provisions of section 44 of the legislative law  and
section 70-b of the public officers law.