Requires the authority install time-delay egress mechanisms on all emergency gates at all stations operated by the MTA and how the MTA shall operate the time-delay egress mechanisms.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9149
IN SENATE
February 6, 2026
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to expanding
time-delay mechanisms on emergency exit gates
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 a new
2 section 1279-j to read as follows:
3 § 1279-j. Time-delay emergency mechanisms. 1. The authority shall
4 install and reasonably maintain time-delay egress mechanisms on all
5 emergency gates at all subway stations operated by the authority.
6 Further, the authority when installing such time-delay egress mechanism
7 shall:
8 (a) include override systems in the event of emergencies (e.g., fires,
9 power failures, emergency evacuations); and
10 (b) comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
11 2. The authority shall be prohibited from using such time-delay egress
12 mechanisms at unstaffed stations. Further, if a station becomes
13 unstaffed, the authority shall be required to deactivate such time-delay
14 mechanism until such station has a trained human station agent phys-
15 ically present and on duty.
16 § 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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