STATE OF NEW YORK
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5892
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 20, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. ENGLEBRIGHT -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to including all
peace officers employed by the first and second departments in the MTA
Long Island Rail Road no fare program
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 amended by chapter 182 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read
3 as 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 and towns, the division of state
10 police, the port authority of New York and New Jersey, the Metro-North
11 Commuter Railroad Company, the New York city housing authority [and],
12 the New York city transit authority and all peace officers employed by
13 the first and second departments. 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 who ride without cost to
17 register with the Long Island Rail Road as a condition of riding without
18 cost; (b) requiring such officers to indicate during such registration
19 process their regular working hours and the Long Island Rail Road trains
20 that such officers expect to ride; and (c) periodically re-registering
21 and re-validating such officers. The authority and the Long Island Rail
22 Road shall also have the power to consider other matters necessary to
23 carry out the goals and objectives of this section.
24 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09874-01-9
