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Assembly Bill A6654

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Provides for reduced-fare tokens for the Verrazano-Narrows bridge for residents of Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties using such bridge to travel to work

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2011-A6654 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง553-f, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A6228
2013-2014: A4291
2015-2016: A4948
2017-2018: A5729

2011-A6654 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for reduced-fare (80%) tokens for the Verrazano-Narrows bridge for residents of Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk, in addition to Richmond, counties using such bridge to travel to their places of employment and provides an exemption from any surcharge to the extent of the amount of any such surcharge during the 1993 calendar year.

2011-A6654 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6654

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 24, 2011
                               ___________

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

AN  ACT  to amend the public authorities law, in relation to authorizing
  reduced-fare tokens for the Verrazano-Narrows bridge for residents  of
  Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties using such bridge to trav-
  el to their place of employment

  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
of Richmond and may, except as otherwise provided herein,  regulate  the
use  thereof. Tokens for residents of the county of Richmond shall enti-
tle 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 of Richmond. 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,  KINGS,  QUEENS,  NASSAU, AND SUFFOLK 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.
TOKENS  FOR  RESIDENTS  OF  THE  COUNTIES  OF KINGS, QUEENS, NASSAU, AND
SUFFOLK WHO TRAVEL OVER SUCH BRIDGE TO REACH THEIR PLACES OF  EMPLOYMENT
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 COUNTIES OF KINGS, QUEENS, NASSAU,

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08532-01-1

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