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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.