Senate Bill S8141A

Signed By Governor
2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires the MTA to hold public hearings prior to certain transportation facility closures

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S8141 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10179
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1277, Pub Auth L

2017-S8141 - Summary

Requires the MTA to hold public hearings prior to certain transportation facility closures; requires that the MTA hold a public hearing on any proposed closing due to construction, improvement, reconstruction or rehabilitation where such facility will be out-of-service for ninety days or longer.

2017-S8141 - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8141 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8141
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 6, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. BENJAMIN -- 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  requiring
   that the MTA provide ninety days' notice to community boards of subway
   station closings due to repairs and/or renovations
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public authorities law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
 section 1277-b to read as follows:
   §  1277-B.  NOTICE  OF  STATION REPAIRS AND RENOVATIONS. THE AUTHORITY
 SHALL PROVIDE NINETY DAYS' NOTICE TO COMMUNITY BOARDS WITHIN THE CITY OF
 NEW YORK WHEN A SUBWAY STATION WILL BE CLOSED FOR REPAIRS  AND/OR  RENO-
 VATIONS  WITHIN  SUCH COMMUNITY BOARD DISTRICT OR WITHIN A ONE-HALF MILE
 RADIUS OF SUCH COMMUNITY BOARD DISTRICT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15335-01-8



              

2017-S8141A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10179
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1277, Pub Auth L

2017-S8141A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the MTA to hold public hearings prior to certain transportation facility closures; requires that the MTA hold a public hearing on any proposed closing due to construction, improvement, reconstruction or rehabilitation where such facility will be out-of-service for ninety days or longer.

2017-S8141A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8141A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8141--A
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 6, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. BENJAMIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --  commit-
   tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
   mitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law,  in  relation  to  requiring
   public hearings prior to certain transportation facility closures

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 1277 of the public authorities law, as  amended  by
 chapter 161 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
   §  1277. Station operation and maintenance. 1. A. The operation, main-
 tenance and use of passenger stations shall be public  purposes  of  the
 city of New York and the counties within the district. The total cost to
 the  authority  and  each  of  its subsidiary corporations of operation,
 maintenance and use  of  each  passenger  station  within  the  district
 serviced  by one or more railroad facilities of the authority or of such
 subsidiary corporation, including the  buildings,  appurtenances,  plat-
 forms,  lands  and  approaches  incidental or adjacent thereto, shall be
 borne by the city of New York if such station is located  in  such  city
 or,  if  not located in such city, by such county within the district in
 which such station is located. On or before June first of each year, the
 authority shall, in accordance with the method specified herein,  deter-
 mine  and  certify to the city of New York and to each county within the
 district the respective allocation of costs related  to  the  operation,
 maintenance and use of passenger stations within such city and each such
 other  county,  for  the  twelve month period ending the preceding March
 thirty-first.
   (I) For the year commencing April first, nineteen hundred ninety-nine,
 the total payment amount to be billed by the authority  for  the  opera-
 tion,  maintenance  and use of each passenger station within the city of
 New York and the counties of  Nassau,  Suffolk,  Westchester,  Dutchess,
 Putnam,  Orange,  and  Rockland shall be calculated by summing the total
 amount listed in the base amount table plus an adjustment to  such  base
 year  amount  equal to the base amount times the increase or decrease in
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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