STATE OF NEW YORK
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4165
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 10, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. STECK, EPSTEIN, KELLES, BYRNES, McMAHON, WALLACE,
THIELE, STIRPE, DiPIETRO, GALLAGHER, FAHY, GONZALEZ-ROJAS -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to the service area
for paratransit transportation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 15-b of the transportation law, as
2 amended by chapter 385 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 4. Accessible buses. The system shall include access by transportation
5 disabled persons, including persons in wheelchairs, to not less than
6 sixty-five percent of buses in the regularly operated fleet of the
7 authority, which shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate
8 their use by transportation disabled persons. To meet this sixty-five
9 percent requirement, all buses purchased, leased, or otherwise brought
10 newly into service on the bus lines of the authority and its subsid-
11 iaries, except buses leased or otherwise put into service to relieve
12 temporary, unplanned shortages of buses in service, shall be accessible
13 to transportation disabled persons until the sixty-five percent require-
14 ment is met. Accessible buses shall be available within a service area
15 measuring three miles from any bus line of the authority and its subsid-
16 iaries.
17 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 15-c of the transportation law, as added
18 by chapter 61 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
19 4. Required level of fixed-route accessibility. a. Each transportation
20 provider shall provide access to one hundred percent of its regularly-
21 operated buses that provide local, fixed-route service. To implement
22 this requirement on and after the effective date of this section, all
23 buses purchased, leased or otherwise brought into service on the bus
24 lines of each transportation provider shall be lift-equipped except any
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 bus which a provider has under contract of purchase on July first, nine-
2 teen hundred ninety for delivery after that date. Such lift-equipped
3 buses shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate their use
4 by transit-disabled persons.
5 b. The provisions of paragraph a of this subdivision shall not apply
6 to buses that are purchased, leased or otherwise brought into service
7 that have a useful life of six years or less.
8 c. Accessible buses shall be available within a service area measuring
9 three miles from any bus line of the authority and its subsidiaries.
10 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
11 have become a law.
