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                                  7422

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 29, 2016
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Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- 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
  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  amended by chapter 182 of the laws of 2013, 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  and  towns,  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] AS DEFINED BY SECTION 1.20 OF THE CRIM-
INAL PROCEDURE LAW AND NEW YORK CITY FIRE MARSHALS. 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 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 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  authority  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.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15160-02-6
              

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  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided,  however,  that
the  no  fare  program shall be implemented on or before the one hundred
twentieth day after this act shall have become a law and that  a  report
containing the provisions of such program shall be made to the governor,
the  senate  majority  and minority leaders, the speaker of the assembly
and the assembly minority leader, and the chairmen  of  the  senate  and
assembly  transportation  committees  30 days prior to implementing such
program.