Provides that for the purpose of eliminating the financial burden of two fares on the commuter, free transfers shall be given by the New York City transit authority from the terminal point of all subway lines to all intersecting omnibus lines and from the terminal point of all omnibus lines to all intersecting subway lines operated by such authority.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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159
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 7, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. KRUGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to free trans-
fers from the terminal points of subway lines to omnibus lines and
from the terminal points of omnibus lines to subway lines operated by
the New York city transit authority
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 1205 of the public authorities
2 law, as amended by chapter 717 of the laws of 1967, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the terms of any
5 contract or franchise, the authority shall have the power at all times
6 to fix or adjust the rate or rates of fare to be charged for the use of
7 any transit facility operated by the authority as may in the judgment of
8 the authority be necessary to maintain the operations of the authority
9 on a self-sustaining basis, provided, however, that whatever the rate of
10 fare is fixed at, and for the purpose of eliminating the financial
11 burden of two fares on the commuter, free transfers shall be given from
12 the terminal point of all subway lines to all intersecting omnibus lines
13 and from the terminal point of all omnibus lines to all intersecting
14 subway lines operated by the authority. The operations of the authority
15 shall be deemed to be on a self-sustaining basis, as required by this
16 title, when the authority is able to pay from revenue, from any funds
17 granted or transferred to the authority pursuant to any provision of
18 law, including funds granted pursuant to the provisions of section nine-
19 ty-eight-b of the general municipal law, and from any other funds actu-
20 ally available to the authority, including the proceeds of borrowings
21 for working capital purposes, the expenses of operation of the authority
22 as the same shall become due.
23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
24 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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