NY State Senate Bill 2025-S3701

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 29, 2025	referred to transportation

2025-S3701 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Transportation
Law Section:: Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§2985 & 1209-a, Pub Auth L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2015-2016: S2196
2017-2018: S1372
2019-2020: S504
2021-2022: S3796
2023-2024: S1844

2025-S3701 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the adjudication of toll collection violations.

2025-S3701 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S3701

SPONSOR: COMRIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public authorities law, in relation to adjudication
of toll collection violations

 
PURPOSE:

To authorize the New York State Thruway Authority and the New York State
Bridge Authority to establish an administrative tribunal to adjudicate
the liability of owners for violation of toll collection regulations.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1. Adds three new subdivisions, 15, 16 and 17, to section 2985
of the public authorities law. Subdivision 15 authorizes and empowers a
public authority that operates a toll highway, bridge or tunnel facility
to impose an administrative fee or fees on an owner, operator or account
holder that has violated toll collection regulations. Subdivision 16
allows any required notice to be sent, with consent, by electronic means

of communication. Subdivision 17 authorizes the New York State Thruway
Authority and the New York State Bridge Authority to adopt rules and
regulations establishing an administrative tribunal to adjudicate the
liability of vehicle owners for violation of toll collection regu-
lations.

Section 2. Amends subdivision 10 of section 1209-a of the public author-
ities law to exclude penalties, evaded toils and other charges collected
and paid to the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority from the require-
ment that such penalties be deposited in a transit crime fund estab-
lished by such authority.

Section 3. Effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This bill would strengthen the ability of the Thruway Authority and the
Bridge Authority to effectively manage and enforce the collection of
tolls throughout the State. Toll violators cost the tolling authorities
tens of millions of dollars each year, and the current law is outdated
and ineffective in enforcing against persistent violators. Some persist-
ent violators owe in excess of $100,000 in tolls and fees.

Current law requires that violations of toll collection regulations he
adjudicated through local courts, creating a burdensome process for the
affected public authorities to go. after offenders which often results
in violators not facing consequences for their actions. Allowing the
Thruway Authority and the Bridge Authority to establish administrative
tribunals to adjudicate toll collection violations would greatly
strengthen their ability to manage and enforce the collection of tolls
at the facilities they operate.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2024: S1844 Comrie/ A9396 Hyndman

2022: S3796
2017-18: S1372 - TRANSPORTATION

2015-16: S2196 - Transportation

2014: S.7608 - Transportation Committee

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after it
shall have become a law.

2025-S3701 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3701
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 29, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to  adjudication
   of toll collection violations
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 2985 of the public authorities law  is  amended  by
 adding three new subdivisions 15, 16 and 17 to read as follows:
   15. IN ADDITION TO ANY MONETARY LIABILITY THAT MAY BE IMPOSED PURSUANT
 TO THIS SECTION, A PUBLIC AUTHORITY THAT OPERATES A TOLL HIGHWAY, BRIDGE
 OR  TUNNEL  FACILITY  IS  HEREBY  AUTHORIZED  AND EMPOWERED TO IMPOSE AN
 ADMINISTRATIVE FEE OR FEES ON AN OWNER, AN OPERATOR OR AN ACCOUNT HOLDER
 THAT HAS VIOLATED TOLL COLLECTION REGULATIONS.
   16. ANY NOTICE REQUIRED TO BE SENT PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION  BY  FIRST
 CLASS  MAIL  MAY  INSTEAD  BE SENT, WITH CONSENT, BY ELECTRONIC MEANS OF
 COMMUNICATION. A MANUAL OR AUTOMATIC RECORD OF ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS
 PREPARED IN THIS ORDINARY COURSE OF BUSINESS SHALL BE ADEQUATE  EVIDENCE
 OF ELECTRONIC NOTICE.
   17. THE NEW YORK STATE THRUWAY AUTHORITY AND THE NEW YORK STATE BRIDGE
 AUTHORITY  ARE AUTHORIZED TO ADOPT RULES AND REGULATIONS TO ESTABLISH AN
 ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL  TO  ADJUDICATE  THE  LIABILITY  OF  OWNERS  FOR
 VIOLATION OF TOLL COLLECTION REGULATIONS AS DEFINED IN AND IN ACCORDANCE
 WITH  THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION AND THE APPLICABLE TOLL REGULATIONS
 OF SUCH AUTHORITIES. SUCH TRIBUNAL SHALL HAVE, WITH RESPECT TO VIOLATION
 OF TOLL COLLECTION REGULATIONS OF SUCH AUTHORITIES, NON-EXCLUSIVE JURIS-
 DICTION OVER VIOLATIONS OF THE RULES AND REGULATIONS WHICH MAY FROM TIME
 TO TIME BE ESTABLISHED  BY  SUCH  AUTHORITIES  IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH  THE
 PROVISIONS  OF THIS SECTION. VIOLATIONS SHALL BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN
 THE COUNTY IN WHICH THE VIOLATION IS ALLEGED TO HAVE OCCURRED OR IN  THE
 COUNTY  IN WHICH THE PUBLIC AUTHORITY HAS ITS PRIMARY OR REGIONAL ADMIN-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05193-01-5
 S. 3701                             2

 
 ISTRATIVE OFFICES AND REGULATIONS MAY PROVIDE FOR THE CONDUCT  OF  HEAR-
 INGS VIA VIDEOCONFERENCING.
   §  2.  Subdivision 10 of section 1209-a of the public authorities law,
 as amended by section 2 of part UU of chapter 56 of the laws of 2024, is
 amended to read as follows:
   10. Funds. [All] EXCEPT FOR PENALTIES, EVADED TOLLS AND OTHER  CHARGES
 COLLECTED AND PAID TO THE TRIBOROUGH  BRIDGE  AND  TUNNEL  AUTHORITY  IN
 ACCORDANCE   WITH THE  PROVISIONS OF SECTION TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY-
 FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER, ALL penalties collected pursuant to the provisions
 of this section shall be paid to the authority to the credit of a trans-
 it crime fund which the authority shall establish. Any sums in this fund
 shall be used to pay for programs selected by the board of the metropol-
 itan transportation authority, in its discretion, to  reduce  the  inci-
 dence  of  crimes and infractions on transit and railroad facilities, or
 to improve the enforcement of laws against such crimes and  infractions.
 Such funds shall be in addition to and not in substitution for any funds
 provided  by the state or any political subdivision within the metropol-
 itan commuter transportation district as established by  section  twelve
 hundred sixty-two of this article for such purposes.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.

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