Authorizes and directs bridge and tunnel officers of the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority to enforce all provisions of law in and about the facilities of such authority and to arrest all persons guilty of violating any law or ordinance.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2440
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to providing
certain powers and duties to bridge and tunnel officers of the Tribor-
ough bridge and tunnel authority
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7-a of section 553 of the public authorities
2 law, as added by chapter 1033 of the laws of 1970, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 7-a. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, the bridge and
5 tunnel officers employed by the authority shall have the power to issue
6 simplified traffic informations for traffic infractions as defined in
7 section one hundred fifty-five of the vehicle and traffic law, committed
8 on the sites owned, operated and maintained by the [triborough] Tribor-
9 ough bridge and tunnel authority, such informations to be administered
10 pursuant to the provisions of [title A of chapter forty] chapter two of
11 title nineteen of the administrative code of the city of New York or
12 article two-A of the vehicle and traffic law, as applicable. In addi-
13 tion, such officers shall have the power and it shall be their duty, in
14 and about Triborough bridge and tunnel authority facilities, to preserve
15 the public peace; prevent crime and arrest offenders; regulate, direct,
16 control and restrict pedestrian traffic; enforce and prevent violation
17 of all laws and ordinances; and for these purposes to arrest all persons
18 guilty of violating any law or ordinance.
19 § 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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