Senate Bill S3721

                            
 
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                                   3721
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 26, 2017
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation  to  authorizing
   and  requiring the metropolitan transportation authority, in consulta-
   tion with the Long Island Rail Road, to implement a program to  permit
   certain police officers and New York city fire marshals to ride on the
   Long Island Rail Road without cost
 
   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] AS DEFINED BY SECTION 1.20 OF THE CRIM-
 INAL PROCEDURE LAW AND NEW YORK CITY FIRE MARSHALS. 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 AND NEW YORK
 CITY FIRE MARSHALS 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 AND NEW YORK CITY FIRE MARSHALS.  The  authority  and  the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD06040-01-7

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 Long  Island  Rail  Road  shall  also  have  the power to consider other
 matters necessary to carry out the goals and objectives of this section.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
 the no fare program shall be implemented on or before  the  one  hundred
 twentieth  day  after this act shall have become a law and that a report
 containing the provisions of such program shall be made to the governor,
 the senate majority and minority leaders, the speaker  of  the  assembly
 and  the  assembly  minority  leader,  and  the chairs of the senate and
 assembly transportation committees 30 days prior  to  implementing  such
 program.