Provides for reduced-fare (80%) tokens for the Verrazano-Narrows bridge for residents of the counties of Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk, in addition to Richmond, using such bridge to travel to their places of employment and provides an exemption from any surcharge to the extent of the amount of any such surcharge during the 1993 calendar year.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4948
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 9, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. CURRAN, FINCH -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to authorizing
reduced-fare tokens for the Verrazano-Narrows bridge for residents of
Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties using such bridge to trav-
el to their place of employment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 553-f of the public authorities law, as amended by
2 chapter 2 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 553-f. Tokens. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law,
4 but subject to agreements with noteholders and bondholders, the authori-
5 ty shall offer for sale tokens with respect to residents of the county
6 of Richmond and may, except as otherwise provided herein, regulate the
7 use thereof. Tokens for residents of the county of Richmond shall enti-
8 tle the purchaser to crossings over the Verrazano-Narrows bridge at a
9 reduced cost of eighty per centum of the regular crossing fare imposed
10 on nonresidents of the county of Richmond. In the event the authority
11 shall impose a surcharge in addition to the regular toll for crossings
12 over the Verrazano-Narrows bridge, such surcharge shall not be deemed a
13 part of the regular crossing fare for purposes of this section, and the
14 tokens offered for sale to the residents of the [county] counties of
15 Richmond, Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk as herein provided shall
16 also entitle the purchaser to a permanent exemption from the payment of
17 any such surcharge in an amount equal to the amount of any such
18 surcharge imposed during calendar year nineteen hundred ninety-three.
19 Tokens for residents of the counties of Kings, Queens, Nassau, and
20 Suffolk who travel over such bridge to reach their places of employment
21 shall entitle the purchaser to crossings over the Verrazano-Narrows
22 bridge at a reduced cost of eighty per centum of the regular crossing
23 fare imposed on nonresidents of the counties of Kings, Queens, Nassau,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 and Suffolk who do not so travel. Application for such tokens or other
2 payment devices shall be made in such manner as prescribed by the
3 authority and shall contain such information as the authority may
4 reasonably require.
5 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
6 have become a law.
