Establishes a discount fare rate of no less than 25% for full-time undergraduate students attending an accredited college who utilize the New York city transit system, including railroad, subway and/or omnibus services.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3553
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 29, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, CYMBROWITZ, BLAKE, DenDEKKER, ORTIZ,
RIVERA, JOYNER, PICHARDO, WALKER, COOK, M. G. MILLER, OTIS, DICKENS,
DE LA ROSA, BARRON, McDONOUGH, GOTTFRIED -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. ABBATE, AUBRY, GALEF, HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to rates of fare
on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1266 of the public authorities law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 19 to read as follows:
3 19. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the authority and any
4 of its subsidiary corporations shall establish and implement a discount
5 fare rate program, such discount to be no less than twenty-five percent
6 of the regular fare, for full-time undergraduate students attending an
7 accredited college. The discount fare rate program established and
8 implemented pursuant to this subdivision shall be in operation during
9 all hours in which such authority provides railroad, subway and/or omni-
10 bus services, and such program shall not be limited in operation to
11 off-peak hours or to any other hours designated by the authority or its
12 subsidiary corporations. The chairman shall establish and implement all
13 rules and regulations necessary to effectuate this subdivision.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
15 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04634-01-9
