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Assembly Bill A4218

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Authorizes the metropolitan transportation authority to offer a no fare program to certain police officers and New York city fire marshals

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2011-A4218 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1266, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A11001
2013-2014: A3726

2011-A4218 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Implements a program authorizing the metropolitan transportation authority, in consultation with the Long Island Rail Road, to permit police officers and New York city fire marshals to ride the Long Island Rail Road without paying a fare; provides for a reporting requirement prior to implementation of such no-fare program.

2011-A4218 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4218

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 2, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEISENBERG  -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation  to  authorizing
  and  requiring the metropolitan transportation authority, in consulta-
  tion with the Long Island Rail Road, to implement a program to  permit
  certain police officers and New York city fire marshals to ride on the
  Long Island Rail Road without cost

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 1266 of  the  public  authorities
law,  as added by chapter 307 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as
follows:
  14. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law or the  terms  of  any
contract, the authority, in consultation with the Long Island Rail Road,
shall  establish  and  implement a no fare program for transportation on
the Long Island Rail Road for police officers [employed by the  city  of
New York, county of Nassau, Nassau county villages and cities, county of
Suffolk, Suffolk county villages, the division of state police, the port
authority  of New York and New Jersey, the Metro-North Commuter Railroad
Company, the New York city housing authority and the New York city tran-
sit authority] AS DEFINED BY SECTION 1.20 OF THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE  LAW
AND  NEW  YORK  CITY FIRE MARSHALS.  In establishing such program, which
has as its goal increased protection and improved safety for its  commu-
ters,  the  authority  and  the Long Island Rail Road shall, among other
things, consider: (a) requiring police officers AND NEW YORK  CITY  FIRE
MARSHALS  who  ride  without  cost to register with the Long Island Rail
Road as a condition of riding without cost; (b) requiring such  officers
AND  NEW  YORK  CITY  FIRE MARSHALS to indicate during such registration
process their regular working hours and the Long Island Rail Road trains
that such officers expect to ride; and (c)  periodically  re-registering
and  re-validating  such  officers  AND NEW YORK CITY FIRE MARSHALS. The

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04217-01-1

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