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Senate Bill S6560

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Authorizes no fare program for correction officers employed by the state and New York city department of corrections and community supervision

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2011-S6560 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1266, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
S1898

2011-S6560 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the metropolitan transportation authority to permit correction officers employed by the department of corrections and community supervision and the department of correction of the city of New York to ride the Long Island railroad at no charge.

2011-S6560 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S6560 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6560

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 27, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. NOZZOLIO -- 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  authorizing
  the  metropolitan  transportation authority to permit state correction
  officers and New York city correction officers to ride the Long Island
  Rail Road at no charge

  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
transit authority, CORRECTION OFFICERS EMPLOYED  BY  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF
CORRECTION  OF  THE CITY OF NEW YORK AND CORRECTION OFFICERS EMPLOYED BY
THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS AND COMMUNITY SUPERVISION. In establishing
such program, which has as its goal increased  protection  and  improved
safety  for  its  commuters, the authority and the Long Island Rail Road
shall, among other things, consider: (a) requiring police  officers  who
ride without cost to register with the Long Island Rail Road as a condi-
tion  of  riding  without  cost; (b) requiring such officers 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. The author-
ity and the Long Island Rail Road shall also have the power to  consider
other  matters  necessary  to carry out the goals and objectives of this
section.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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

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