Authorizes a county board of supervisors to require that a ferry operating within such county transport without charge or fee of any kind, any soldier, sailor or marine in uniform during their term of enlistment in the service of the state or the United States.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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S. 5133--A A. 6547--A
Cal. No. 846
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
SENATE - ASSEMBLY
March 9, 2017
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IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transporta-
tion -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and
second report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered
reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Transportation -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to providing that a county
board of supervisors shall be authorized to require that a ferry shall
carry without charge or fee of any kind for transportation any member
of the United States armed forces or organized militia of the state in
uniform during their term of enlistment in the service of the state or
United States
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 131-g of the highway law, as amended by chapter 897
2 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 131-g. Regulation of toll rates. 1. Such boards shall have power by
4 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to authorize an alter-
5 ation, reduction or change of the rates of toll charged or received by
6 any turnpike, plank or gravel road, or other toll road within such coun-
7 ty, or by any bridge company or ferry within such county, or, if within
8 more than one county, then by joint action with the supervisors of such
9 counties, provided such alteration shall be asked for by the directors,
10 trustees or owners of such road, bridge or ferry; but that no increase
11 of toll shall be so authorized unless notice of such proposed increase
12 shall have been published once each week for three successive weeks in a
13 newspaper having general circulation in each town in which such road or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 bridge is located or in which such ferry is operated, commencing at
2 least thirty days prior to the date of such authorization; and any
3 alteration in rates of toll authorized by any board of supervisors may
4 be changed or modified by any subsequent board, on their own motion, by
5 a like vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to such board; but
6 nothing herein contained shall affect or abridge the powers of any city.
7 2. In the case of rates of toll for a ferry, such boards shall be
8 authorized to provide that a ferry shall carry without charge or fee of
9 any kind for transportation between points wholly within the state of
10 New York any member of the United States armed forces or organized mili-
11 tia of the state in uniform during their term of enlistment in the
12 service of the state or United States. Such boards are authorized to
13 adopt local laws required to implement and administer this subdivision.
14 § 2. Severability. The provisions of this act shall be severable and
15 if any portion thereof or the applicability thereof to any person or
16 circumstances shall be held invalid, the remainder of this act and the
17 application thereof shall not be affected thereby.
18 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
