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Senate Bill S1717

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Directs the New York state thruway authority to discontinue the collection of tolls at the Grand Island bridges in the Niagara section of the thruway

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2019-S1717 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6621
Law Section:
Authorities
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A11513
2011-2012: A3388
2013-2014: A4010
2015-2016: S7555, A9863
2017-2018: S4834, A5614
2021-2022: A4489
2023-2024: A2331
2025-2026: A4488

2019-S1717 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the New York state thruway authority to discontinue the collection of tolls at the Grand Island bridges in the Niagara section of the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway.

2019-S1717 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S1717 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1717
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. JACOBS, ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT in relation to discontinuing the collection of tolls at the Grand
   Island bridges in the Niagara section of the New York state thruway

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Notwithstanding any contrary provision of law, the New York
 State thruway authority shall discontinue the collection of tolls at the
 Grand  Island  bridges  in the Niagara section of the Governor Thomas E.
 Dewey Thruway, as such section is described in subdivision 8 of  section
 356 of the public authorities law.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05773-01-9

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