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Senate Bill S1450

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Renames the Newkirk Avenue rapid transit station in Brooklyn the Newkirk Avenue Little Haiti station

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2021-S1450 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2393
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Public Authorities Law
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S8341, A10060
2023-2024: S738

2021-S1450 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Renames the Newkirk Avenue subway station on the IRT Nostrand Avenue line the "Newkirk Avenue -- Little Haiti station".

2021-S1450 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S1450 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1450
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 12, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT in relation to renaming the Newkirk Avenue subway station on  the
   IRT Nostrand Avenue line the "Newkirk Avenue - Little Haiti station"
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Upon a determination by the Metropolitan    Transportation
 Authority   or the New York City Transit Authority that sufficient funds
 have been committed to   it   specifically   for   such   purpose,   the
 Metropolitan  Transportation  Authority,  the public benefit corporation
 created by section 1263 of the public   authorities law,   and  the  New
 York  City  Transit Authority, the public benefit corporation created by
 section 1201 of the  public   authorities law, shall  use  such  specif-
 ically  committed  funds  to rename the Newkirk Avenue subway station on
 the IRT Nostrand Avenue line of the New York city subway to the  Newkirk
 Avenue    -   Little Haiti  station. The MTA shall ensure that all signs
 and any  other  items  issued  by  the  MTA  are updated  to  accurately
 reflect the new name of the station within ten months.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect immediately, and  shall  be deemed
 repealed  after  the  signs and any other items are accurately  updated.
 The chief executive officer of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
 or  president of the New York City Transit Authority  shall  notify  the
 legislative bill drafting commission upon the completion of such updates
 in  order that the commission may maintain an accurate and timely effec-
 tive data base of the official text of the laws of the state of New York
 in furtherance of effectuating the provisions  of  section  44  of   the
 legislative law and section 70-b of the public officers law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06209-01-1

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