Directs the MTA to establish a fare program which caps the amount of fares charged to riders during an applicable time period at the amount which represents the value of an unlimited fare card for the same time period.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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279
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 4, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- 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 directing the
establishment of a fare program which caps the amount of fares
charged to riders during an applicable time period
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1266 of the public authorities law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 20 to read as follows:
3 20. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the authority shall
4 establish and implement a fare program through One Metro New York which
5 limits the amount of fares a rider may be charged in a time period to
6 the value of an unlimited pass for the same period of time applicable to
7 any such unlimited pass. Upon payment of the fare, a rider shall be
8 charged only up to the applicable value of an unlimited pass for such
9 time period and not more regardless of how many uses the rider accrues
10 during the applicable period. Once charges accrue to the applicable
11 value of the unlimited pass during such time period, additional trips
12 are free for the remainder of that period. For the purposes of this
13 subdivision, "One Metro New York" shall mean the digital fare payment
14 system being implemented by the authority at subway and bus stations
15 within the metropolitan commuter transportation district and the state
16 of New Jersey.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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