Requires the chairman of NYC transportation authority to promulgate rules and regulations providing for certain means of transportation to be utilized at the request of paratransit-eligible persons.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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488
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT in relation to requiring the chairman of the New York city trans-
portation authority to promulgate rules and regulations providing for
certain means of transportation to be utilized at the request of para-
transit-eligible persons
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The chairman of the New York city transportation authority
2 shall promulgate rules and regulations providing for the use of specific
3 vehicles upon the request of a paratransit-eligible person utilizing
4 paratransit services of the authority, provided, however, such person
5 shall submit to the chairman, written medical proof provided by a physi-
6 cian licensed pursuant to article 131 of the education law, on a form
7 provided by the authority, that such vehicle is medically necessary to
8 transport such person.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
10 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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