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Assembly Bill A4047

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires cash lanes be made available at certain toll barriers

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2015-A4047 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3092
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง1266-k, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A25, S32
2017-2018: A1140, S2371
2019-2020: S3211
2021-2022: S5786

2015-A4047 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires cash lanes be made available at certain toll barriers.

2015-A4047 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4047

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 29, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. FARRELL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

AN ACT to amend the public authorities law,  in  relation  to  requiring
  cash lanes to be made available at certain toll barriers

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

  Section 1.  The public authorities law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
section 1266-k to read as follows:
  S  1266-K.  PLACEMENT  OF  ELECTRONIC  TOLL COLLECTION SYSTEM LANES AT
METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY TOLL  BARRIERS  LOCATED  WITHIN  A
CITY  HAVING  A  POPULATION  OF ONE MILLION OR MORE. THE CHAIRMAN OF THE
AUTHORITY SHALL ESTABLISH, BY RULE OR REGULATION, REQUIREMENTS  FOR  THE
PLACEMENT  OF  AT  LEAST  ONE  CASH  LANE  TO  BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR THE
COLLECTION OF TOLLS AND FARES WHERE ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION  SYSTEMS,
AS  DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TWELVE OF SECTION TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY-
FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER, HAVE BEEN DESIGNATED AT THE TOLL BARRIERS OPERATED
BY THE METROPOLITAN TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY AT A TOLL HIGHWAY,  BRIDGE,
TUNNEL  OR  OTHER THOROUGHFARE LOCATED WITHIN A CITY HAVING A POPULATION
OF ONE MILLION OR MORE. SUCH RULES AND  REGULATIONS  SHALL  SPECIFY  THE
GENERAL  LOCATION  OF  THE  ROADWAY  LANES  IN WHICH CASH LANES SHALL BE
LOCATED.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law, provided, however, that the chairman of  the
metropolitan  transportation  authority  is  authorized  and directed to
promulgate  any  rules  and  regulations  necessary  to  implement   the
provisions of this act on or before such effective date.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08219-01-5

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