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                                  10001

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               May 4, 2016
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Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

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.