STATE OF NEW YORK
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2371
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 13, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. ALCANTARA -- 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 requiring
cash lanes to be made available at certain toll barriers
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 1266-k to read as follows:
3 § 1266-k. Placement of electronic toll collection system lanes at
4 metropolitan transportation authority toll barriers located within a
5 city having a population of one million or more. The chairman of the
6 authority shall establish, by rule or regulation, requirements for the
7 placement of at least one cash lane to be made available for the
8 collection of tolls and fares where electronic toll collection systems,
9 as defined in subdivision twelve of section twenty-nine hundred eighty-
10 five of this chapter, have been designated at the toll barriers operated
11 by the metropolitan transportation authority at a toll highway, bridge,
12 tunnel or other thoroughfare located within a city having a population
13 of one million or more. Such rules and regulations shall specify the
14 general location of the roadway lanes in which cash lanes shall be
15 located.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
17 it shall have become a law, provided, however, that the chairman of the
18 metropolitan transportation authority is authorized and directed to
19 promulgate any rules and regulations necessary to implement the
20 provisions of this act on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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