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Assembly Bill A6617A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Directs the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to rename Utica Avenue subway station to Malcolm X Boulevard/Utica Avenue train station

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2025-A6617 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7764
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Metropolitan Transportation Authority

2025-A6617 - Summary

Directs the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to rename Utica Avenue subway station to Malcolm X Boulevard/Utica Avenue train station.

2025-A6617 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6617
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ZINERMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN  ACT  directing the metropolitan transportation authority and the New
   York city transit authority to rename the Utica Avenue subway  station
   to  the Malcolm X Boulevard-Utica Avenue station; and provides for the
   repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Upon  a  determination by the metropolitan transportation
 authority or the New York city transit authority that  sufficient  funds
 have  been  committed to it specifically for such purpose, the metropol-
 itan transportation authority, the public benefit corporation created by
 section 1263 of the public authorities law, and the New York city trans-
 it authority, the public benefit corporation created by section 1201  of
 the  public authorities law, shall use such specifically committed funds
 to rename the Utica Avenue subway station on the IND Fulton Street  Line
 of  the  New  York  city  subway to the Malcolm X Boulevard-Utica Avenue
 station. The metropolitan transportation authority shall ensure that all
 signs and any other items  issued  by  the  metropolitan  transportation
 authority are updated to accurately reflect the new name of the station.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
 deemed repealed after the signs  and  any  other  items  are  accurately
 updated.  The chief executive officer of the metropolitan transportation
 authority or president of the New  York  city  transit  authority  shall
 notify  the  legislative bill drafting commission upon the completion of
 such updates in order that the 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.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10108-01-5

2025-A6617A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7764
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Metropolitan Transportation Authority

2025-A6617A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to rename Utica Avenue subway station to Malcolm X Boulevard/Utica Avenue train station.

2025-A6617A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6617--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ZINERMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee   on   Corporations,  Authorities  and  Commissions  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN ACT directing the metropolitan transportation authority to rename the
   Utica Avenue subway station to the Malcolm  X  Boulevard/Utica  Avenue
   station;  and  provides for the repeal of such provisions upon expira-
   tion thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Upon  a  determination by the metropolitan transportation
 authority or the New York city transit authority that  sufficient  funds
 have  been  committed to it specifically for such purpose, the metropol-
 itan transportation authority, the public benefit corporation created by
 section 1263 of the public authorities law, and the New York city trans-
 it authority, the public benefit corporation created by section 1201  of
 the  public authorities law, shall use such specifically committed funds
 to rename the Utica Avenue subway station  on  the  A  and  C  lines  in
 Bedford-Stuyvesant  of  the New York city subway to the Malcolm X Boule-
 vard-Utica Avenue station.  The  metropolitan  transportation  authority
 shall  ensure that all signs and any other items issued by the metropol-
 itan transportation authority are updated to accurately reflect the  new
 name of the station.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
 deemed repealed after the signs  and  any  other  items  are  accurately
 updated.  The chief executive officer of the metropolitan transportation
 authority or president of the New  York  city  transit  authority  shall
 notify  the  legislative bill drafting commission upon the completion of
 such updates in order that the 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.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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