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                                   8024
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                            September 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the  vehicle  and  traffic  law,  in  relation  to  toll
   exemptions  for  certain  vehicles under the central business district
   tolling program
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 1704-a of the vehicle and
 traffic law, as added by section 1 of subpart A of part ZZZ  of  chapter
 59 of the laws of 2019, are amended to read as follows:
   1. Consistent with the goals of reducing traffic congestion within the
 central  business  district  and funding capital projects the Triborough
 bridge and tunnel authority shall have the power, subject to  agreements
 with its bondholders, and applicable federal law to establish and charge
 variable  tolls  and  fees  for  vehicles  entering  or remaining in the
 central business district at any time and shall have the power,  subject
 to agreements with bondholders, and applicable federal law to make rules
 and regulations for the establishment and collection of central business
 district  tolls, fees, and other charges. For purposes of establishing a
 central business district toll or tolls the  board  shall,  at  minimum,
 ensure annual revenues and fees collected under such program, less costs
 of  operation  of  the  same,  provide  for sufficient revenues into the
 central business district  tolling  capital  lockbox  fund,  established
 pursuant to section five hundred fifty-three-j of the public authorities
 law  necessary  to fund fifteen billion dollars for capital projects for
 the 2020 to 2024 MTA capital program, and any additional revenues  above
 that amount to be available for any successor programs. Additionally, no
 toll  may  be  established  and charged on passenger vehicles registered
 pursuant to subdivision six of section four hundred one of this  chapter
 more  than  once  per  day for purposes of entering the central business
 district. ADDITIONALLY, NO TOLL MAY BE ESTABLISHED AND CHARGED ON  VEHI-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13021-02-3
              

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 CLES  REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION SIX OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED ONE
 OF THIS CHAPTER WHICH ARE PRIMARILY USED FOR PURPOSES OF  COMMERCIAL  OR
 RESIDENTIAL  REPAIR  SERVICES  MORE  THAN  ONCE  PER DAY FOR PURPOSES OF
 ENTERING THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT.
   2.  No  qualifying authorized emergency vehicle as defined pursuant to
 section one hundred one of  this  chapter,  or  [a]  qualifying  vehicle
 transporting  a  person  with  disabilities, OR VEHICLE REGISTERED UNDER
 SUBDIVISION SIX OF SECTION FOUR HUNDRED ONE OF THIS CHAPTER BY  A  CIVIL
 SERVICE EMPLOYEE; OR VEHICLE REGISTERED UNDER SUBDIVISION SIX OF SECTION
 FOUR  HUNDRED ONE OF THIS CHAPTER BY A PERSON ENROLLED IN AN INSTITUTION
 OF HIGHER EDUCATION LOCATED WITHIN THE CENTRAL BUSINESS  DISTRICT  shall
 be  charged  a central business district toll if it enters or remains in
 the central business district. Application for such toll exemption shall
 be made in such manner as prescribed by the Triborough bridge and tunnel
 authority and shall  contain  such  information  as  the  authority  may
 reasonably require.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.