Establishes an additional low emission zone toll in the central business district for vehicles that do not meet federal emission standards as set by the United States environmental protection agency.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
August 28, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Cunningham)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
a low emission zone toll in the central business district
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding a new
2 section 1704-b to read as follows:
3 § 1704-b. Additional central business district low emission zone toll.
4 1. Consistent with the goals of reducing motor vehicle emissions within
5 the central business district and funding capital projects, the Tribor-
6 ough bridge and tunnel authority shall have the power, subject to agree-
7 ments with its bondholders, and applicable federal law to establish and
8 charge an additional toll of thirteen dollars and sixty cents for vehi-
9 cles entering or remaining in the central business district where such
10 vehicles fail to meet federal emission standards as determined by the
11 United States environmental protection agency and shall have the power,
12 subject to agreements with bondholders, and applicable federal law to
13 make rules and regulations for the establishment and collection of
14 central business district tolls in relation to motor vehicle emissions.
15 2. No qualifying authorized emergency vehicle as defined pursuant to
16 section one hundred one of this chapter or a qualifying vehicle trans-
17 porting a person with disabilities shall be charged a central business
18 district low emission zone toll if it enters or remains in the central
19 business district. Application for such toll exemption shall be made in
20 such manner as prescribed by the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority
21 and shall contain such information as the authority may reasonably
22 require.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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