S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8515
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
August 7, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. STECK, SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to the service area
for paratransit transportation
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 15-b of the transportation law, as
amended by chapter 385 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as
follows:
4. Accessible buses. The system shall include access by transportation
disabled persons, including persons in wheelchairs, to not less than
sixty-five percent of buses in the regularly operated fleet of the
authority, which shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate
their use by transportation disabled persons. To meet this sixty-five
percent requirement, all buses purchased, leased, or otherwise brought
newly into service on the bus lines of the authority and its subsid-
iaries, except buses leased or otherwise put into service to relieve
temporary, unplanned shortages of buses in service, shall be accessible
to transportation disabled persons until the sixty-five percent require-
ment is met. ACCESSIBLE BUSES SHALL BE AVAILABLE WITHIN A SERVICE AREA
MEASURING FIVE MILES FROM ANY BUS LINE OF THE AUTHORITY AND ITS SUBSID-
IARIES.
§ 2. Subdivision 4 of section 15-c of the transportation law is
amended by adding a new paragraph c to read as follows:
C. ACCESSIBLE BUSES SHALL BE AVAILABLE WITHIN A SERVICE AREA MEASURING
FIVE MILES FROM ANY BUS LINE OF THE AUTHORITY AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES.
§ 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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