Assembly Bill A1506

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Requires the MTA to file a copy of proposed station closings with various governmental agencies

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  • 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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2013-A1506 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1297
Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1277, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4208
2011-2012: A500, S6419
2015-2016: A942, S3156
2017-2018: A1876, S5216
2019-2020: A4399

2013-A1506 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the MTA to file a copy of proposed station closings with various governmental agencies; provides that the MTA hold a public hearing on any proposed closings; allows the MTA to not comply with the filing provisions for emergency repairs or repairs that cause the station to close for less than twenty-four hours.

2013-A1506 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  1506

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the
  MTA to post a schedule of station closings

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

  Section 1. Section 1277 of the public authorities law, as  amended  by
chapter 161 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
  S  1277. Station operation and maintenance. 1. A. The operation, main-
tenance and use of passenger stations shall be public  purposes  of  the
city of New York and the counties within the district. The total cost to
the  authority  and  each  of  its subsidiary corporations of operation,
maintenance and use  of  each  passenger  station  within  the  district
serviced  by one or more railroad facilities of the authority or of such
subsidiary corporation, including the  buildings,  appurtenances,  plat-
forms,  lands  and  approaches  incidental or adjacent thereto, shall be
borne by the city of New York if such station is located  in  such  city
or,  if  not located in such city, by such county within the district in
which such station is located. On or before June first of each year, the
authority shall, in accordance with the method specified herein,  deter-
mine  and  certify to the city of New York and to each county within the
district the respective allocation of costs related  to  the  operation,
maintenance and use of passenger stations within such city and each such
other  county,  for  the  twelve month period ending the preceding March
thirty-first.
  (I) For the year commencing April first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine,
the total payment amount to be billed by the authority  for  the  opera-
tion,  maintenance  and use of each passenger station within the city of
New York and the counties of  Nassau,  Suffolk,  Westchester,  Dutchess,
Putnam,  Orange,  and  Rockland shall be calculated by summing the total

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

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