Implements a program authorizing the metropolitan transportation authority, in consultation with the Long Island Rail Road, to permit police officers and New York city fire marshals to ride the Long Island Rail Road without paying a fare; provides for a reporting requirement prior to implementation of such no-fare program.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3726
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to authorizing
and requiring the metropolitan transportation authority, in consulta-
tion with the Long Island Rail Road, to implement a program to permit
certain police officers and New York city fire marshals to ride on the
Long Island Rail Road without cost
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 1266 of the public authorities
2 law, as added by chapter 307 of the laws of 1995, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 14. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law or the terms of any
5 contract, the authority, in consultation with the Long Island Rail Road,
6 shall establish and implement a no fare program for transportation on
7 the Long Island Rail Road for police officers [employed by the city of
8 New York, county of Nassau, Nassau county villages and cities, county of
9 Suffolk, Suffolk county villages, the division of state police, the port
10 authority of New York and New Jersey, the Metro-North Commuter Railroad
11 Company, the New York city housing authority and the New York city tran-
12 sit authority] as defined by section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law
13 and New York city fire marshals. In establishing such program, which
14 has as its goal increased protection and improved safety for its commu-
15 ters, the authority and the Long Island Rail Road shall, among other
16 things, consider: (a) requiring police officers and New York city fire
17 marshals who ride without cost to register with the Long Island Rail
18 Road as a condition of riding without cost; (b) requiring such officers
19 and New York city fire marshals to indicate during such registration
20 process their regular working hours and the Long Island Rail Road trains
21 that such officers expect to ride; and (c) periodically re-registering
22 and re-validating such officers and New York city fire marshals. The
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 authority and the Long Island Rail Road shall also have the power to
2 consider other matters necessary to carry out the goals and objectives
3 of this section.
4 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided, however, that
5 the no fare program shall be implemented on or before the one hundred
6 twentieth day after this act shall have become a law and that a report
7 containing the provisions of such program shall be made to the governor,
8 the senate majority and minority leaders, the speaker of the assembly
9 and the assembly minority leader, and the chairmen of the senate and
10 assembly transportation committees 30 days prior to implementing such
11 program.
