Senate Bill S8702

                             
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                                   8702
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 1, 2024
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 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the  public  authorities
   law,  in  relation  to  exempting  any  resident of Rockland county or
   Orange county from congestion pricing in New York City

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  vehicle  and  traffic law is amended by adding a new
 section 1704-b to read as follows:
   § 1704-B. EXEMPTION FROM CENTRAL BUSINESS  DISTRICT  TOLLING  PROGRAM.
 ANY  RESIDENT  OF  ROCKLAND COUNTY OR ORANGE COUNTY SHALL NOT BE CHARGED
 FOR ENTRY INTO OR REMAINING IN THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT PURSUANT TO
 SECTION SEVENTEEN HUNDRED FOUR-A OF THIS ARTICLE.
   § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 1630 of the vehicle and traffic law,  as
 amended  by section 2 of subpart A of part ZZZ of chapter 59 of the laws
 of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   4. Charging of tolls, taxes, fees, licenses or permits for the use  of
 the  highway  or  any of its parts or entry into or remaining within the
 central business district established by article  forty-four-C  of  this
 chapter,  where  the  imposition  thereof  is  authorized  by law.   THE
 PROVISIONS OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL NOT APPLY TO RESIDENTS OF  ROCKLAND
 COUNTY OR ORANGE COUNTY.
   § 3. Subdivision 12-a of section 553 of the public authorities law, as
 added by section 4 of subpart A of part ZZZ of chapter 59 of the laws of
 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   12-a.  To  establish and charge variable tolls, fees and other charges
 for vehicles entering or remaining within the central business district,
 EXCEPT FOR ANY VEHICLE WHICH ORIGINATES IN  ROCKLAND  COUNTY  OR  ORANGE
 COUNTY,  and  to  make  rules and regulations for the collection of such
 tolls, fees and other charges, subject to and in  accordance  with  such
 agreement  with bondholders and applicable federal law as may be made as
 hereinafter provided. Subject to agreements with bondholders and  appli-
 cable  federal  law, all tolls, fees and other revenues derived from the
 central business district  tolling  program  shall  be  applied  to  the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 payment  of  operating,  administration, and other necessary expenses of
 the authority properly allocable to such program, including the  capital
 costs  of  such  program, and to the payment of interest or principal of
 bonds,  notes  or other obligations of the authority or the metropolitan
 transportation authority issued for transit  and  commuter  projects  as
 provided  in section five hundred fifty-three-j of this title, and shall
 not be subject to distribution under section five  hundred  sixty-nine-c
 of  this title or section twelve hundred nineteen-a of this chapter. The
 provisions of section twenty-eight hundred four of  this  chapter  shall
 not  be  applicable  to  the tolls and fees established by the authority
 pursuant to this subdivision. Any such fares, tolls, and  other  charges
 shall  be  established and changed only if approved by resolution of the
 authority adopted by not less than a majority vote of the  whole  number
 of members of the authority then in office, with the chairman having one
 additional  vote  in  the  event  of a tie vote, and only after a public
 hearing.
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.