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Senate Bill S5535

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Includes certain members of the New York State Court Officers Association in the MTA Long Island Railroad no fare program

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2017-S5535 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1266, Pub Auth L

2017-S5535 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes officers, sergeants, lieutenants, captains, majors and chiefs of the New York State Court Officers Association in the MTA Long Island Rail Road no fare program.

2017-S5535 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S5535 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5535
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. KAMINSKY -- 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  including
   certain  members  of  the New York State Court Officers Association in
   the MTA Long Island Railroad no fare program

   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 AND OFFICERS, SERGEANTS, LIEUTEN-
 ANTS, CAPTAINS, MAJORS AND CHIEFS OF THE NEW YORK STATE  COURT  OFFICERS
 ASSOCIATION.  In  establishing  such  program,  which  has  as  its goal
 increased protection and improved safety for its commuters, the authori-
 ty and the Long Island Rail Road shall, among  other  things,  consider:
 (a) requiring police officers who ride without cost to register with the
 Long Island Rail Road as a condition of riding without cost; (b) requir-
 ing  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-va-
 lidating such officers. The authority and  the  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.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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