Senate Bill S30

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires the city of New York or county within the district to make maintenance of escalators, elevators and other facilities in passenger stations a priority

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  • 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-S30 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A982
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§1277 & 1279-a, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S1387, A3952
2011-2012: S1241, A837
2015-2016: S3040
2017-2018: S2311

2013-S30 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the city of New York or county within the district to make maintenance of escalators, elevators and other facilities in passenger stations a priority; requires daily inspections, reports to MTA inspector general and the management advisory board, emergency repair order after two consecutive daily reports of inoperable facilities, and annual reports by the management advisory board.

2013-S30 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S30 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                   30

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced by Sen. ESPAILLAT -- 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 ensuring
  public  accessibility  in  certain  mass  transit  and  rapid  transit
  stations

  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. The operation, maintenance
and use of passenger stations shall be public purposes of  the  city  of
New York and the counties within the district.  1. (A) 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.
For the year commencing April first, nineteen hundred  ninety-nine,  the
total  payment  amount  to be billed by the authority for the operation,
maintenance and use of each passenger station within  the  city  of  New
York and the counties of Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester, Dutchess, Putnam,

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

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