Provides for the reimbursement of the ticket price of unused one-way, round trip or multi-trip tickets purchased for use on the Long Island Rail Road or the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company if returned within one year.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4819
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 6, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. E. BROWN, GANDOLFO, DeSTEFANO, SLATER, McDONOUGH,
BRABENEC, MAHER, DURSO -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to one-way,
round trip or multi-trip tickets and tickets purchased after boarding
the Long Island Rail Road and the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Compa-
ny
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public authorities law is amended by adding two new
2 sections 1266-n and 1266-o to read as follows:
3 § 1266-n. Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Commuter Railroad
4 Company; reimbursement. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any
5 one-way, round trip or multi-trip ticket not purchased for a specific
6 month or unlimited travel, but purchased for use on the Long Island Rail
7 Road or the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company shall be valid for one
8 year from the date of purchase and the authority shall reimburse one
9 hundred percent of the purchase price of any unused Long Island Rail
10 Road or Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company one-way, round trip or
11 multi-trip ticket to the bearer of such ticket, provided that such tick-
12 et is returned within one year of the date of purchase. The authority is
13 prohibited from assessing any surcharge or processing fee for the return
14 of any such unused one-way, round trip or multi-trip ticket purchased
15 for use on the Long Island Rail Road or the Metro-North Commuter Rail-
16 road Company.
17 § 1266-o. Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Commuter Railroad
18 Company; fare after boarding. Additional train fare purchased after
19 boarding by a passenger possessing a ticket with insufficient fare,
20 shall be rounded up to the nearest quarter of a dollar.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
22 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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