Requires the New York state thruway authority, the port authority of New York and New Jersey and the metropolitan transportation authority to create an e-z pass mobile application to provide e-z pass account holders with a toll calculator, account information, and the option to pay tolls within five days of tolling.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8800
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
November 27, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. CASTORINA -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring the
New York state thruway authority, the port authority of New York and
New Jersey and the metropolitan transportation authority to create an
e-z pass mobile application
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new
2 section 389 to read as follows:
3 § 389. E-z pass mobile application. 1. The authority, in conjunction
4 with the port authority of New York and New Jersey and the metropolitan
5 transportation authority, shall create and maintain an e-z pass mobile
6 application for use by e-z pass account holders.
7 2. Such mobile application shall provide the following:
8 (a) a toll calculator for route destinations;
9 (b) e-z pass holder account information including, but not limited to,
10 display of account balances, fees and payment options; and
11 (c) the option for e-z pass account holders to pay tolls within five
12 days of tolling.
13 3. For purposes of this section "mobile application" shall mean appli-
14 cation software designed to run on a mobile device including, but not
15 limited to, a mobile phone or tablet computer.
16 § 2. Section 1266 of the public authorities law is amended by adding a
17 new subdivision 19 to read as follows:
18 19. The authority shall assist the New York state thruway authority
19 and the port authority of New York and New Jersey in developing an e-z
20 pass mobile application, as provided in section three hundred eighty-
21 nine of this chapter.
22 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
23 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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