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                                   3483
 
                        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.  DenDEKKER  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN ACT to direct the metropolitan transportation authority to study  the
   feasibility  and  impact  of installing sliding access doors on subway
   platforms, ensure proper operation of  security  cameras  and  install
   instant communications devices
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The metropolitan transportation authority shall  conduct  a
 study to examine the feasibility and impact of the installation of slid-
 ing  access  doors  upon platforms at subway facilities operated by such
 authority including, but not limited to the following issues:
   (a) increased benefits to the safety of customers;
   (b) the likelihood of fatality prevention; and
   (c) the fiscal impact of installation.
   § 2. The metropolitan transportation  authority  shall  ensure  proper
 operation  of  all  security  cameras at all subway stations operated by
 such authority.
   Such authority is further directed to publish an annual report  relat-
 ing  to  the  proper  operation  of security cameras at subway stations,
 which shall include, but not be limited, to the following:
   (a) the total number of systemwide incidents of security camera  fail-
 ures  occurring  within  a calendar year, as well as a metric indicating
 the percentage of all systemwide security cameras  having  failed  at  a
 point during a calendar year;
   (b)  the length of time that each security camera experiencing a fail-
 ure was malfunctioning for;
   (c) whether negligence on  the  part  of  metropolitan  transportation
 authority  staff  was a contributing factor to the failure of a specific
 security camera;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   (d) whether negligence on the part of the metropolitan  transportation
 authority  staff  was  a contributing factor to the time elapsed between
 the failure of a security camera and its reinstatement to proper  opera-
 tion; and
   (e)  a  list of security camera failures occurring within the calendar
 year, delineated by each subway station operated by the authority.
   § 3. The metropolitan transportation authority shall:
   (a) install instant communications devices, commonly  referred  to  as
 "help point" systems, at all subway stations operated by such authority;
   (b)  develop  policies  and  procedures  relative  to  customer use of
 instant communications devices to contact rail control centers  oversee-
 ing subway traffic;
   (c)  annually publish information, on or before December thirty-first,
 that indicates how many subway stations  operated  by  the  metropolitan
 transportation authority have undergone installation of instant communi-
 cations  devices,  until such time as all subway stations have undergone
 installation of instant communications devices; and
   (d) within ninety days of the effective date of this  act,  publish  a
 timetable  including  the  date by which the metropolitan transportation
 authority expects to complete  installation  of  instant  communications
 devices at all subway stations in its system.
   § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.