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                                   4405
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 2, 2017
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. CUSICK, OTIS -- 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.
   § 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.
              

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 of Suffolk, necessitated or occasioned by any weather-related condition,
 event, or emergency.
   § 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.
   § 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.