S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3469
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 27, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. RAIA, MONTESANO, RA, McKEVITT, McDONOUGH, GRAF,
MALLIOTAKIS, LUPINACCI, LALOR, FINCH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
BARCLAY, BLANKENBUSH, CROUCH, DiPIETRO, HAWLEY, SALADINO -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commis-
sions
AN ACT to amend chapter 47 of the laws of 1931, relating to bridges and
tunnels in New York and New Jersey, in relation to requiring tolls and
revenues from bridges and tunnels in New York and New Jersey be used
to cover the costs of the construction, maintenance and operation of
said bridges and tunnels
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 1 of chapter 47 of the laws of 1931, relating to
bridges and tunnels in New York and New Jersey, is amended to read as
follows:
Section 1. The state of New Jersey by appropriate legislation concur-
ring herein, the states of New York and New Jersey hereby declare and
agree that the vehicular traffic moving across the interstate waters
within the port of New York district, created by the compact of April
thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-one, between the said states, which said
phrase "interstate waters" as used in this act shall include the portion
of the Hudson river within the said port of New York district north of
the New Jersey state line, constitutes a general movement of traffic
which follows the most accessible and practicable routes, and that the
users of each bridge or tunnel over or under the said waters benefit by
the existence of every other bridge or tunnel since all such bridges and
tunnels as a group facilitate the movement of such traffic and relieve
congestion at each of the several bridges and tunnels. Accordingly the
two said states, in the interest of the users of such bridges and
tunnels and the general public, hereby agree that the construction,
maintenance, operation and control of all such bridges and tunnels,
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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heretofore or hereafter authorized by the two said states, shall be
unified under the port of New York authority (hereinafter called the
port authority), to the end that the tolls and other revenues therefrom
shall be [applied so far as practicable] USED EXCLUSIVELY to COVER the
costs of the construction, maintenance and operation of said bridges and
tunnels as a group [and economies in operation effected], it being the
policy of the two said states that such bridges and tunnels shall as a
group be in all respects self-sustaining.
§ 2. This act shall take effect upon the enactment into law by the
state of New Jersey of legislation having an identical effect; but if
the state of New Jersey shall have already enacted such legislation,
then this act shall take effect immediately and provided that the state
of New Jersey shall notify the legislative bill drafting commission upon
the occurrence of the enactment of the provisions provided for in this
act in order that the commission may maintain an accurate and timely
effective data base of the official text of the laws of the state of New
York in furtherance of effecting the provisions of section 44 of the
legislative law and section 70-b of the public officers law.