Senate Bill S1297

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires the MTA to file a copy of proposed station closings with various governmental agencies

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-S1297 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1506
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1277, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4208
2011-2012: S6419, A500
2015-2016: S3156, A942
2017-2018: S5216, A1876
2019-2020: A4399

2013-S1297 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the MTA to file a copy of proposed station closings with various governmental agencies; provides that the MTA hold a public hearing on any proposed closings; allows the MTA to not comply with the filing provisions for emergency repairs or repairs that cause the station to close for less than twenty-four hours.

2013-S1297 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S1297 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1297

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 the
  MTA to post a schedule of station closings

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

  Section  1.  Section 1277 of the public authorities law, as amended by
chapter 161 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
  S 1277. Station operation and maintenance. 1. A. The operation,  main-
tenance  and  use  of passenger stations shall be public purposes of the
city of New York and the counties within the district. The total cost to
the authority and each of  its  subsidiary  corporations  of  operation,
maintenance  and  use  of  each  passenger  station  within the district
serviced by one or more railroad facilities of the authority or of  such
subsidiary  corporation,  including  the buildings, appurtenances, plat-
forms, lands and approaches incidental or  adjacent  thereto,  shall  be
borne  by  the  city of New York if such station is located in such city
or, if not located in such city, by such county within the  district  in
which such station is located. On or before June first of each year, the
authority  shall, in accordance with the method specified herein, deter-
mine and certify to the city of New York and to each county  within  the
district  the  respective  allocation of costs related to the operation,
maintenance and use of passenger stations within such city and each such
other county, for the twelve month period  ending  the  preceding  March
thirty-first.
  (I) For the year commencing April first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine,
the  total  payment  amount to be billed by the authority for the opera-
tion, maintenance and use of each passenger station within the  city  of
New  York  and  the  counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Dutchess,
Putnam, Orange, and Rockland shall be calculated by  summing  the  total

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

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