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Senate Bill S4136

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Provides for reduced fare tokens for the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge by Kings county residents

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2009-S4136 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง553-f, Pub Auth L

2009-S4136 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority to make reduced fare tokens available to residents of Kings county for crossing over the Verrazano-Narrows bridge; provides that such fare shall be at a reduced cost of eighty per centum of the regular crossing fare.

2009-S4136 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S4136 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4136

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 14, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  KRUGER -- 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 providing for
  reduced fare tokens for residents of Kings county who use the Verraza-
  no-Narrows bridge

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

  Section 1.  Section 553-f of the public authorities law, as amended by
chapter 2 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
  S  553-f.  Tokens.  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law,
but subject to agreements with noteholders and bondholders, the authori-
ty shall offer for sale tokens with respect to residents of the [county]
COUNTIES of Richmond AND KINGS and may,  except  as  otherwise  provided
herein,  regulate  the use thereof. Tokens for residents of the [county]
COUNTIES of Richmond AND KINGS shall entitle the purchaser to  crossings
over the Verrazano-Narrows bridge at a reduced cost of eighty per centum
of  the  regular  crossing  fare imposed on nonresidents of the [county]
COUNTIES of Richmond AND KINGS.  In the event the authority shall impose
a surcharge in addition to the  regular  toll  for  crossings  over  the
Verrazano-Narrows  bridge,  such surcharge shall not be deemed a part of
the regular crossing fare for purposes of this section, and  the  tokens
offered  for  sale to the residents of the [county] COUNTIES of Richmond
AND KINGS as herein provided shall  also  entitle  the  purchaser  to  a
permanent  exemption from the payment of any such surcharge in an amount
equal to the amount of any such surcharge imposed during  calendar  year
nineteen  hundred  ninety-three.  Application  for  such tokens or other
payment devices shall be made  in  such  manner  as  prescribed  by  the
authority  and  shall  contain  such  information  as  the authority may
reasonably require.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11156-01-9

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