Enacts the New York city transit passenger safety act; provides for minimum staffing levels on trains operated in passenger service in the New York city transit system; requires at least one train operator and one conductor on each and every train in passenger service meeting certain conditions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1858
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 12, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. NOLAN, GLICK, BRODSKY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. COLTON, DINOWITZ, FARRELL, GOTTFRIED, GREENE, HEASTIE, JACOBS,
JOHN, MILLMAN, PHEFFER, SCARBOROUGH, WRIGHT -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to providing for
minimum staffing levels on trains operated in passenger service in the
New York city transit system
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 the "New York city transit passenger safety act".
3 § 2. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new section
4 1204-e to read as follows:
5 § 1204-e. Minimum staffing of trains operated in passenger service. 1.
6 The legislature finds that the presence of train conductors and train
7 operators on subway trains operated by the New York city transit author-
8 ity is particularly essential to the safety of passengers when emergen-
9 cies arise including when trains are in tunnels under bodies of water or
10 on bridges, when trains are long or composed of numerous cars, and
11 during periods of heavy passenger volume.
12 2. The authority shall insure that at least one train operator and one
13 conductor shall be deployed on each and every train in passenger service
14 which meets one of the following conditions:
15 a. The train is made up of more than four railroad cars or is greater
16 than three hundred sixty feet in length; or
17 b. The train serves passengers on a line that passes through a tunnel
18 under a river or tidal estuary or on bridges; or
19 c. The train is operating in passenger service on a line where the
20 potential passenger load on the train at any point in time is in excess
21 of seven hundred fifty passengers.
22 § 3. 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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