Authorizes a county board of supervisors to require that a ferry operating within such county transport without charge or fee of any kind, any soldier, sailor or marine in uniform during their term of enlistment in the service of the United States.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6535
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 5, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. BROOKS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to providing that a county
board of supervisors shall be authorized to require that a ferry shall
carry without charge or fee of any kind for transportation any member
of the United States armed forces in uniform during their term of
enlistment in the service of the United States
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 131-g of the highway law, as amended by chapter 897
2 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 131-g. Regulation of toll rates. 1. Such boards shall have power by
4 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to authorize an alter-
5 ation, reduction or change of the rates of toll charged or received by
6 any turnpike, plank or gravel road, or other toll road within such coun-
7 ty, or by any bridge company or ferry within such county, or, if within
8 more than one county, then by joint action with the supervisors of such
9 counties, provided such alteration shall be asked for by the directors,
10 trustees or owners of such road, bridge or ferry; but that no increase
11 of toll shall be so authorized unless notice of such proposed increase
12 shall have been published once each week for three successive weeks in a
13 newspaper having general circulation in each town in which such road or
14 bridge is located or in which such ferry is operated, commencing at
15 least thirty days prior to the date of such authorization; and any
16 alteration in rates of toll authorized by any board of supervisors may
17 be changed or modified by any subsequent board, on their own motion, by
18 a like vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to such board; but
19 nothing [herein] in this section contained shall affect or abridge the
20 powers of any city.
21 2. In the case of rates of toll for a ferry, such boards shall be
22 authorized to adopt a local law to provide that a ferry shall carry
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 without charge or fee of any kind for transportation between points
2 wholly within the state of New York any member of the United States
3 armed forces in uniform during their term of enlistment in the service
4 of the United States. Provided, however, that the provisions of this
5 subdivision shall not apply to a ferry owned or operated by a munici-
6 pality that is subject to the provisions of section one hundred four of
7 the transportation law.
8 § 2. Severability. The provisions of this act shall be severable and
9 if any portion thereof or the applicability thereof to any person or
10 circumstances shall be held invalid, the remainder of this act and the
11 application thereof shall not be affected thereby.
12 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
