Provides that the port authority shall prohibit nonstop flights to or from points beyond one thousand five hundred miles, except on Saturdays and flights to Denver, Colorado, from flying to or from LaGuardia airport, an air terminal of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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84
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. LIU, STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Corporations, Author-
ities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend chapter 802 of the laws of 1947, relating to facilitat-
ing the financing and effectuation of air terminals by the Port of New
York Authority, in relation to prohibiting certain flights at LaGuar-
dia airport
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Chapter 802 of the laws of 1947, relating to facilitating
2 the financing and effectuation of air terminals by the Port of New York
3 Authority, is amended by adding a new section 4-c to read as follows:
4 § 4-c. The port authority shall, by regulation, prohibit nonstop
5 flights to or from points beyond one thousand five hundred miles, except
6 on Saturdays and flights to Denver, Colorado, from flying to or from
7 LaGuardia airport, an air terminal of the Port Authority of New York and
8 New Jersey.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect upon the enactment into law by the
10 state of New Jersey of legislation having an identical effect with this
11 act, but if the state of New Jersey shall have already enacted such
12 legislation, this act shall take effect immediately; provided that the
13 chairman of the port authority of New Jersey shall notify the legisla-
14 tive bill drafting commission upon the occurrence of the enactment of
15 the legislation provided for in section one of this act in order that
16 the commission may maintain an accurate and timely effective database of
17 the official text of the laws of the state of New York in furtherance of
18 effectuating the provisions of section 44 of the legislative law and
19 section 70-b of the public officers law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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