Directs the New York state thruway authority to establish an electronic toll collection device for trucks used by farms, which grants a 10% discount for use of the thruway.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1095
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 10, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. AMEDORE, AKSHAR, GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Trans-
portation
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to directing the
New York state thruway authority to establish a farm EZ pass which
grants discounted tolls for certain motor vehicles used by persons
engaged in agricultural production
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 378-b to read as follows:
3 § 378-b. Farm EZ pass. 1. The authority shall establish and issue
4 electronic toll collection devices for single unit trucks and trucks
5 having two or more axles which are owned and operated by a person or
6 entity engaged in the production of crops, livestock and livestock
7 products, as defined in subdivision two of section three hundred one of
8 the agriculture and markets law, when such trucks are used exclusively
9 to further the conducting of such production. The use of such electronic
10 toll collection devices shall provide a ten percent discount on the toll
11 otherwise imposed for the use of the thruway system, or any portion
12 thereof, by the truck to which the device is affixed.
13 2. The authority shall promulgate rules and regulations to implement
14 the provisions of this section, including establishing the type of
15 documentation or other proof required to prove that a truck is exclu-
16 sively used to further the conducting of the production of crops, live-
17 stock and livestock products.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
19 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, any rules and regu-
20 lations necessary to implement the provisions of this act on its effec-
21 tive date are authorized and directed to be completed on or before such
22 date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01219-01-9
