Senate Bill S4182

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Require MTA, N.Y.C. office of emergency management, and port authority of N.Y. and N.J. to report to the governor and the legislature on weather-related evacuation capabilities

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Corporations, Authorities And Commissions Committee

  • 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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2009-S4182 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4973
Current Committee:
Senate Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Authorities
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A3844
2013-2014: A4947
2015-2016: A5341
2017-2018: A4405

2009-S4182 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires 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; requires the metropolitan transportation authority to certify as to its facilities and equipment.

2009-S4182 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S4182 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4182

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 15, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by Sens. FLANAGAN, LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed,
  and  when  printed  to  be committed 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.
  S 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

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06686-01-9

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