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                                   2963
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to the Verrazza-
   no-Narrows bridge
 
   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] VERRAZZANO-
 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]  VERRAZZANO-NARROWS
 bridge, such surcharge shall not be deemed a part of the regular  cross-
 ing  fare  for purposes of this section, and the tokens offered for sale
 to the residents of the county of Richmond 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.  Application
 for such tokens or other payment devices shall be made in such manner as
 prescribed  by  the  authority and shall contain such information as the
 authority may reasonably require.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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                                  2963--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on  Corporations,  Authorities  and  Commissions -- recommitted to the
   Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions  in  accordance
   with  Assembly  Rule  3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend chapter 182 of the laws of 1960 amending the highway law
   relating to providing that the Narrows Bridge shall be designated  and
   known as "the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge", in relation to making a tech-
   nical correction thereto; and to amend the state law, the highway law,
   the  navigation  law,  the  environmental conservation law, the public
   authorities law, and the administrative code of the city of New  York,
   in relation to the Verrazzano-Narrows bridge
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 1 of chapter 182 of the laws of 1960  amending  the
 highway  law  relating  to  providing  that  the Narrows Bridge shall be
 designated and known as "the Verrazano-Narrows bridge",  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   Section  1.  In  recognition  of  the bold explorations of Giovanni da
 [Verrazano] VERRAZZANO and his discovery of New York harbor  in  fifteen
 hundred  twenty-four, the bridge to be constructed between Staten Island
 and Long Island, sometimes referred to as  the  Narrows  bridge  or  the
 Brooklyn  Richmond  project,  shall  upon construction be designated and
 known as "The [Verrazano-Narrows] VERRAZZANO-NARROWS Bridge"
   § 2. Subdivision 46 of section 121 of the state law, as added by chap-
 ter 16 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
   46. Forty-sixth district. In the county of  Kings,  the  part  of  the
 borough of Brooklyn bounded by a line described as follows: Beginning at
 a  point  where  Shore  Road and 83rd Street meet, thence easterly along
 said street to Narrows Avenue, thence northerly  along  said  avenue  to
 81st  Street, thence easterly along said street to Colonial Road, thence
 
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                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 northerly along said road to 80th Street,  thence  easterly  along  said
 street to Ridge Boulevard, thence northerly along said boulevard to 78th
 Street, thence easterly along said street to 3rd Avenue, thence souther-
 ly  along  said  avenue  to 79th Street, thence southeasterly along said
 street to 7th Avenue southbound, thence northerly along said  avenue  to
 Ovington  Avenue,  thence southeasterly along said avenue to 8th Avenue,
 thence southwesterly along said avenue to 71st Street, thence southeast-
 erly along said street to Fort Hamilton  Parkway,  thence  northeasterly
 along  said parkway to Bay Ridge Avenue, thence southeasterly along said
 avenue to 10th Avenue, thence southwesterly along said  avenue  to  74th
 Street,  thence  southeasterly  along said street to 12th Avenue, thence
 southwesterly along said avenue to  78th  Street,  thence  southeasterly
 along said street to 13th Avenue, thence southwesterly along said avenue
 to  79th  Street, thence northwesterly along said street to 12th Avenue,
 thence southwesterly along said avenue to 81st Street, thence southeast-
 erly along said street to 13th Avenue, thence southwesterly  along  said
 avenue  to  82nd  Street, thence southeasterly along said street to 14th
 Avenue, thence southwesterly along said avenue to Benson Avenue,  thence
 southeasterly  along  said  avenue  to 16th Avenue, thence southwesterly
 along said avenue to Cropsey Avenue,  thence  southeasterly  along  said
 avenue  to  Bay  13th  Street, thence southwesterly along said street to
 Shore Parkway North, thence southeasterly along said parkway to a  point
 on  a  line  extended  easterly from the Belt Parkway to the point where
 Shore Parkway meets 21st Avenue, thence westerly along said line to  the
 Belt Parkway, thence southeasterly along said parkway to a point where a
 line  extended  south  from Bayview Place meets the Belt Parkway, thence
 northerly along said line  extended  to  a  point  on  a  line  extended
 northwesterly  from  the  end  of Shore Road, thence southeasterly along
 said line extended to Shore Road, thence southerly along  said  road  to
 Bay  50th  Street,  thence  northeasterly  along  said street to Cropsey
 Avenue, thence southerly along said avenue to Bay  50th  Street,  thence
 northeasterly  along  said  street to West 16th Street, thence southerly
 along said street to Avenue Z, thence easterly along said avenue to West
 15th Street, thence southerly along said street to Shore Parkway  North,
 thence  southeasterly  along  said  parkway  to Stillwell Avenue, thence
 southerly along said avenue to Belt Parkway, thence easterly along  said
 parkway to New York City Transit tracks (N Line), thence northerly along
 said  tracks to a point on a line extended northwesterly from the end of
 Shore Parkway, thence southeasterly along said  line  to  Shore  Parkway
 North, thence easterly along said parkway to Shell Road, thence norther-
 ly  along  said  road  to Avenue Z, thence easterly along said avenue to
 West Street, thence northerly along said  street  to  Avenue  Y,  thence
 easterly along said avenue to Ocean Parkway, thence southerly along said
 parkway  to  Shore  Parkway South, thence easterly along said parkway to
 Brighton 3rd Street, thence  southerly  along  said  street  to  Neptune
 Avenue, thence easterly along said avenue to Brighton 4th Street, thence
 southerly  along said street to Ocean View Avenue, thence easterly along
 said avenue to Brighton 5th Street, thence southerly along  said  street
 to  Brightwater  Court, thence easterly along said court to Brighton 6th
 Street, thence southerly along said street  to  Boardwalk  East,  thence
 easterly  along  said  boardwalk to a point on a line extended northerly
 from the border of Kings/Queens County to Coney  Island  Avenue,  thence
 southerly  along said line extended to the border of Kings/Queens county
 line, thence westerly along said line  to  Kings/Richmond  county  line,
 thence  northerly along said line to the [Verrazano-Narrows] VERRAZZANO-
 NARROWS Bridge, thence easterly along said bridge to a point on  a  line

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 extended  southwesterly  to  the  [Verrazano-Narrows] VERRAZZANO-NARROWS
 Bridge, thence northeasterly along said line extended to 4th Avenue  and
 Shore  Road to its intersection with 83rd Street, thence northerly along
 Shore Road to the point and place of beginning.
   §  3.  The  paragraph  relating  to interstate route connection 512 of
 section 340-a of the highway law, as amended by chapter 453 of the  laws
 of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
   Interstate   Route  Connection  512.  Staten  Island  expressway  from
 Goethals  bridge  approach  to  [Verrazano-Narrows]   VERRAZZANO-NARROWS
 bridge  approach,  Brooklyn-Queens  expressway  from [Verrazano-Narrows]
 VERRAZZANO-NARROWS bridge  approach  to  Grand  Central  parkway,  Grand
 Central  parkway  from  Brooklyn-Queens  expressway to Robert F. Kennedy
 bridge approach, Major Deegan expressway from Robert F.  Kennedy  bridge
 approach to the Westchester county line connecting with interstate route
 502.
   § 4. Section 343-h of the highway law, as amended by chapter 97 of the
 laws  of  1998  and  as renumbered by chapter 14 of the laws of 1999, is
 amended to read as follows:
   § 343-h. Portion of the state highway system to be designated  as  the
 "POW-MIA Memorial Highway". All that portion of the state highway system
 located  in  Richmond  county  constituting  route 278 from the Goethals
 bridge to  the  [Verrazano-Narrows]  VERRAZZANO-NARROWS  bridge  (Staten
 Island Expressway) shall be designated and known as the "POW-MIA Memori-
 al Highway".
   §  5.  Section  349-f of the highway law, as amended by chapter 558 of
 the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
   § 349-f. New York city routes. The following existing or proposed main
 routes or thoroughfares, are designated herein, as aforesaid, viz.:
   New England thruway from  the  Westchester  county  line  to  Bruckner
 expressway;  Bruckner  expressway  from New England thruway to Robert F.
 Kennedy bridge approach; Hutchinson river parkway from  the  Westchester
 county line to the Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach; Bronx river parkway
 from  the  Westchester  county line to Bruckner expressway; Henry Hudson
 parkway from the Westchester county line to Miller highway excepting the
 Henry Hudson bridge, provided that no portion of this  route  from  West
 Seventy-second street to the Cross Bronx expressway shall be constructed
 or reconstructed so as to encroach in any way on or over any land mapped
 or  used  for park purposes except for such temporary encroachment of no
 more than ten feet in width from seventy-third street  to  seventy-sixth
 street  as may be essential during and for the purpose of reconstruction
 or repair of the existing roadway following which there  shall  be  full
 restoration  of  park  land;  Major Deegan expressway from the Robert F.
 Kennedy bridge to Central Park avenue at  the  Westchester  county  line
 together  with  a connection to Broadway and along Broadway to Manhattan
 college parkway; Cross Bronx expressway from  George  Washington  bridge
 approach  to  Throgs  Neck  bridge; Throgs Neck expressway from Bruckner
 expressway to Throgs Neck bridge; Arthur  V.  Sheridan  expressway  from
 Cross-Bronx  expressway  to  Bruckner  expressway;  Mosholu parkway from
 Henry Hudson parkway to Bronx river parkway; Bronx  and  Pelham  parkway
 from  Bronx river parkway to New England thruway; Boston road from Bronx
 and Pelham parkway to New England thruway;  Miller  highway  from  Henry
 Hudson  parkway  to  the  Hugh  L.  Carey tunnel; and from Hugh L. Carey
 tunnel to Brooklyn-Queens expressway; Franklin D. Roosevelt  drive  from
 the  Hugh  L.  Carey tunnel to Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach; Harlem
 river drive from Robert F. Kennedy bridge approach to George  Washington
 bridge  approach; Belt parkway including Gowanus parkway to Third avenue

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 and Sixtieth street, Leif Erikson drive to Knapp street, Shore  parkway,
 Belt  parkway,  Southern  parkway  and Cross Island parkway from Hugh L.
 Carey tunnel to Bronx-Whitestone bridge approach; Nassau expressway from
 Southern  parkway  to the Nassau county line; Brooklyn-Queens expressway
 from Gowanus expressway to Grand Central  parkway;  Prospect  expressway
 from  Gowanus  expressway  to Ocean parkway; Ocean parkway from Prospect
 expressway to Shore parkway; Interborough  parkway  from  Grand  Central
 Parkway to Belt parkway; Gowanus expressway from the [Verrazano-Narrows]
 VERRAZZANO-NARROWS  bridge  to  Third  avenue  at Gowanus parkway; Third
 Avenue from Gowanus expressway to Hamilton avenue; Hamilton Avenue  from
 Third  Avenue  to Hugh L. Carey tunnel; Queens boulevard from Queensbor-
 ough bridge approach to Van Wyck expressway; Van  Wyck  expressway  from
 Whitestone  expressway, including a connection to Grand Central parkway,
 to John F.  Kennedy  international  airport;  Woodhaven  boulevard  from
 Queens  boulevard  to Cross Bay parkway bridge northerly approach; Cross
 Bay parkway from Cross Bay bridge  southerly  approach  to  Short  Front
 parkway;  Shore Front parkway from Cross Bay parkway generally along the
 shore line of the Atlantic ocean to the Nassau expressway at the  Nassau
 county   line;  Queens-Midtown  expressway  from  Queens-Midtown  tunnel
 approach to Queens Boulevard;  Horace  Harding  expressway  from  Queens
 Boulevard  to  the  Nassau  county  line; a connection between Brooklyn-
 Queens expressway and  Northern  boulevard  in  the  vicinity  of  Grand
 Central  parkway;  Grand  Central  parkway from Robert F. Kennedy bridge
 approach to Nassau county line; Whitestone expressway from  Bronx-White-
 stone  bridge  approach  to  Van Wyck expressway and continuing to Grand
 Central parkway; Clearview expressway from Throgs Neck bridge to  Nassau
 expressway;  Richmond  parkway  from  Staten Island expressway to Outer-
 bridge crossing approach; Staten Island expressway from Goethals  bridge
 to  the  [Verrazano-Narrows] VERRAZZANO-NARROWS bridge with a connection
 to Bayonne bridge; Willowbrook parkway from Staten Island expressway  to
 Great Kills park; West Shore expressway from Staten Island expressway to
 Outerbridge  crossing;  Shore Front drive northerly from the terminus of
 West Shore expressway at  Staten  Island  expressway,  thence  generally
 along  the shore lines of Kill Van Kull, the Narrows, Lower New York bay
 and Raritan bay to the approach to Outerbridge crossing.
   § 6. Section 91-a of the navigation law, as amended by chapter 197  of
 the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
   § 91-a. Licensing  of  Hudson  river  pilots.  The commissioners, or a
 majority of them, shall license, for such terms as they may think  prop-
 er,  as  many  pilots  as they may deem necessary to pilot ships through
 that portion of the Hudson river specified in this act, the continuation
 of the Hudson river, and the main ship channel of  the  Upper  bay,  New
 York  harbor,  east  of  a  line from Robbins reef light to the tower at
 Staten Island borough hall and down to the [Verrazano-Narrows] VERRAZZA-
 NO-NARROWS Bridge, and such commissioners may specify in  such  licenses
 different  degrees  of  qualifications appropriate to different parts or
 branches of pilot duty, according to the competency of the applicant.
   § 7. Subdivision 1 of section 11-0306 of the  environmental  conserva-
 tion  law,  as  added  by chapter 612 of the laws of 1987, is amended to
 read as follows:
   1. There is established a Hudson River estuarine district which  shall
 include the tidal waters of the Hudson River, including the tidal waters
 of its tributaries and wetlands from the federal lock and dam at Troy to
 the [Verrazano-Narrows] VERRAZZANO-NARROWS.
   § 8.  Section 553-f of the public authorities law, as amended by chap-
 ter 2 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:

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   §  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]  VERRAZZANO-
 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]  VERRAZZANO-NARROWS
 bridge,  such surcharge shall not be deemed a part of the regular cross-
 ing fare for purposes of this section, and the tokens offered  for  sale
 to the residents of the county of Richmond 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. Application
 for such tokens or other payment devices shall be made in such manner as
 prescribed by the authority and shall contain such  information  as  the
 authority may reasonably require.
   § 9. Paragraph 35 of subdivision a of section 3-202 of the administra-
 tive code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
   35. Thirty-fifth District
   That  part of the Borough of Staten Island bounded by a line described
 as follows:
   BEGINNING at a point in waters of Arthur Kill between border lines  of
 New  Jersey,  and Richmond County, at Goethals Bridge, proceeding south-
 east, to Railroad cut, then proceeding east, to Gulf Avenue,  to  Staten
 Island  Expressway,  to Bengal Avenue, to Fahy Avenue, to Arlene Street,
 to Lander Avenue, to Richmond Avenue, to Victory Boulevard,  to  Willow-
 brook  Road,  to Watchogue Road, to Victory Boulevard, to Manor Road, to
 Ocean Terrace, to Todt Hill Road, to Richmond Road, proceeding  norther-
 ly,  to Cromwell Avenue, to Hylan Boulevard, to Old Town Road, to Staten
 Island Rapid Transit Line, proceeding north on Staten Island Rapid Tran-
 sit Line, to West Fingerboard Road, to Steuben Street, to  Hylan  Boule-
 vard,  to  Hickory  Avenue,  to  McClean  Avenue,  to  Lily Pond Avenue,
 extended to waters of Atlantic  Ocean;  thence  northerly  and  westerly
 through  the  Narrows,  through  the Kill Van Kull Waters, including the
 entire part of the City of New York known as Snooter's  Island,  to  the
 waters  of  the  Arthur  Kill,  to the point or place of beginning; this
 district is further intended to include that  part  of  the  Borough  of
 Brooklyn bounded by a line described as follows:
   BEGINNING  at  a  point  at the Brooklyn borough line in the waters of
 Gravesend Bay at Twenty-sixth Avenue,  extended  to  Harway  Avenue,  to
 Stillwell  Avenue,  to  Avenue  U, to West Ninth Street, to Avenue T, to
 West Twelfth Street, to Kings Highway, to Bay Parkway,  to  Seventy-sev-
 enth  Street,  to  Twentieth  Avenue,  to  Benson  Avenue, to Eighteenth
 Avenue, to Cropsey Avenue, to Bay Nineteenth Street, to  Shore  Parkway,
 to  Shore  Road  extension,  to Bay Eighth Street, to Cropsey Avenue, to
 Fourteenth Avenue, to Poly Place, to Battery  Avenue,  thence  northerly
 and  westerly  along the border of the United States Government reserva-
 tion known as Fort Hamilton, to Gowanus  Expressway,  to  Fort  Hamilton
 Parkway,  to One Hundred First Street, to Fourth Avenue, extended in the
 waters of The Narrows, at the Brooklyn borough  line,  thence  projected
 into  the  waters of the Lower Bay, on the north side of and parallel to
 the [Verrazano Narrows] VERRAZZANO-NARROWS Bridge thence  southerly  and
 easterly to the point or place of beginning.

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   §  10.  The  New York state department of transportation, the New York
 city department of transportation and  the  metropolitan  transportation
 authority shall provide for the installation and maintenance of adequate
 signage in conformance with this act within such time and in such manner
 as  they shall deem appropriate, provided that such time does not exceed
 one hundred eighty days after the effective date of this  act.  However,
 to avoid confusion and to limit any possible disruption of commerce, the
 designations  called for pursuant to this act shall be one of ceremonial
 nature and the official name of such bridge shall not be  changed  as  a
 result of this act.
   §  11. Terms occurring in laws, regulations, contracts and other docu-
 ments.  Whenever Verrazano-Narrows Bridge or Verrazano Narrows Bridge is
 referred to or designated in any law, regulation, contract or  document,
 such  reference or designation shall be deemed to refer to the Verrazza-
 no-Narrows Bridge, and no such laws,  regulations,  contracts  or  other
 documents shall be thereby impaired in any way.
   § 12. This act shall take effect immediately.