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Assembly Bill A7421

2015-2016 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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2015-A7421 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง1266, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
A8782

2015-A7421 (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 Rail Road at no charge.

2015-A7421 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7421

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 11, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GOLDFED-
  ER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Author-
  ities and Commissions

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  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, 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 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. The

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07244-01-5

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