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Assembly Bill A5031

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Prohibits state appropriation for mass transportation assistance to system which permits promotion of tobacco or alcohol

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2009-A5031 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Transportation
Law Section:
Transportation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง18-b, Transp L

2009-A5031 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits state appropriation for mass transportation assistance to system which permits promotion of tobacco or alcohol within or on the exterior of any passenger motor vehicle or in the performance of any service in connection therewith.

2009-A5031 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5031

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 10, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. BRODSKY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CLARK,
  JACOBS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to  prohibiting  the
  promotion  of  cigarettes,  tobacco products or alcoholic beverages on
  certain public transportation system vehicles

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 18-b of the transportation law, as
amended  by  chapter  921  of  the  laws  of 1983, is amended to read as
follows:
  1. Within the amounts made  available  therefor  by  appropriation,  a
statewide  mass  transportation  operating  assistance program is hereby
established for the purpose of  making  payments  toward  the  operating
expenses  of  public  transportation systems.   For the purposes of this
section, the term public transportation system  shall  mean  any  public
benefit [corportion] CORPORATION constituting a transportation authority
which  provides  or  contracts for the provision of (under joint support
arrangements) mass transportation services, or a subsidiary thereof,  or
any Indian tribe which provides, or any county or city which provides or
contracts  for  the  provision of (pursuant to section one hundred nine-
teen-r of the general municipal law) mass transportation services or any
person, firm [or], corporation, PARTNERSHIP, LIMITED LIABILITY  COMPANY,
OR OTHER ENTITY performing intercity bus passenger service as defined in
subdivision  three  of section fourteen-g of this article serving two or
more counties within the state which is under contract with the  commis-
sioner  pursuant  to such section fourteen-g to provide mass transporta-
tion services; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT NO STATE APPROPRIATION  FOR  MASS
TRANSPORTATION  OPERATING ASSISTANCE SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE AND PAID TO
A PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM WHICH  PERMITS  THE  PROMOTION  OF  CIGA-
RETTES,  TOBACCO PRODUCTS, OR ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES WITHIN OR ON THE EXTE-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08681-01-9

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