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Assembly Bill A2753

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Permits certain police officers and New York city fire marshals to ride on the Long Island Rail Road without cost

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2019-A2753 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3945
Current Committee:
Assembly Corporations, Authorities And Commissions
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §1266, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A10001, S7422
2017-2018: A4334, S3721

2019-A2753 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes and requires the metropolitan transportation authority, in consultation 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.

2019-A2753 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2753
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 25, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
 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.

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