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Assembly Bill A5729

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Provides for reduced-fare tokens for the Verrazano-Narrows bridge for residents of Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties using such bridge to travel to work

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2017-A5729 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §553-f, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A6228
2011-2012: A6654
2013-2014: A4291
2015-2016: A4948

2017-A5729 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for reduced-fare (80%) tokens for the Verrazano-Narrows bridge for residents of the counties of Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk, in addition to Richmond, using such bridge to travel to their places of employment and provides an exemption from any surcharge to the extent of the amount of any such surcharge during the 1993 calendar year.

2017-A5729 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5729
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. CURRAN, FINCH, HARRIS -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation  to  authorizing
   reduced-fare  tokens for the Verrazano-Narrows bridge for residents of
   Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties using such bridge to trav-
   el to their place of employment
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Section 553-f of the public authorities law, as amended by
 chapter 2 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
   §  553-f.  Tokens.  Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law,
 but subject to agreements with noteholders and bondholders, the authori-
 ty shall offer for sale tokens with respect to residents of  the  county
 of  Richmond  and may, except as otherwise provided herein, regulate the
 use thereof. Tokens for residents of the county of Richmond shall  enti-
 tle  the  purchaser  to crossings over the Verrazano-Narrows bridge at a
 reduced cost of eighty per centum of the regular crossing  fare  imposed
 on  nonresidents  of  the county of Richmond. In the event the authority
 shall impose a surcharge in addition to the regular toll  for  crossings
 over  the Verrazano-Narrows bridge, such surcharge shall not be deemed a
 part of the regular crossing fare for purposes of this section, and  the
 tokens  offered  for  sale  to the residents of the [county] COUNTIES of
 Richmond, KINGS, QUEENS, NASSAU, AND SUFFOLK as  herein  provided  shall
 also  entitle the purchaser to a permanent exemption from the payment of
 any such surcharge in  an  amount  equal  to  the  amount  of  any  such
 surcharge  imposed  during  calendar year nineteen hundred ninety-three.
 TOKENS FOR RESIDENTS OF THE  COUNTIES  OF  KINGS,  QUEENS,  NASSAU,  AND
 SUFFOLK  WHO TRAVEL OVER SUCH BRIDGE TO REACH THEIR PLACES OF EMPLOYMENT
 SHALL ENTITLE THE PURCHASER  TO  CROSSINGS  OVER  THE  VERRAZANO-NARROWS
 BRIDGE  AT  A  REDUCED COST OF EIGHTY PER CENTUM OF THE REGULAR CROSSING
 FARE IMPOSED ON NONRESIDENTS OF THE COUNTIES OF KINGS,  QUEENS,  NASSAU,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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