Authorizes the metropolitan transportation authority to permit correction officers employed by the department of corrections and community supervision and the department of correction of the city of New York to ride the Long Island railroad at no charge.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1898--A
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. NOZZOLIO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- recom-
mitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate
Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to authorizing
the metropolitan transportation authority to permit state correction
officers and New York city correction officers to ride the Long Island
Rail Road at no charge
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 1266 of the public authorities
2 law, as amended by chapter 182 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 14. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law or the terms of any
5 contract, the authority, in consultation with the Long Island Rail Road,
6 shall establish and implement a no fare program for transportation on
7 the Long Island Rail Road for police officers employed by the city of
8 New York, county of Nassau, Nassau county villages and cities, county of
9 Suffolk, Suffolk county villages and towns, the division of state
10 police, the port authority of New York and New Jersey, the Metro-North
11 Commuter Railroad Company, the New York city housing authority [and],
12 the New York city transit authority, correction officers employed by the
13 department of correction of the city of New York and correction officers
14 employed by the department of corrections and community supervision. In
15 establishing such program, which has as its goal increased protection
16 and improved safety for its commuters, the authority and the Long Island
17 Rail Road shall, among other things, consider: (a) requiring police
18 officers who ride without cost to register with the Long Island Rail
19 Road as a condition of riding without cost; (b) requiring such officers
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 to indicate during such registration process their regular working hours
2 and the Long Island Rail Road trains that such officers expect to ride;
3 and (c) periodically re-registering and re-validating such officers. The
4 authority and the Long Island Rail Road shall also have the power to
5 consider other matters necessary to carry out the goals and objectives
6 of this section.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
