STATE OF NEW YORK
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3267
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 5, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 discounted
bridge and tunnel tokens issued to senior citizens
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 553-j to read as follows:
3 § 553-j. Senior citizen discount tokens. Notwithstanding any incon-
4 sistent provision of law, but subject to agreements with noteholders and
5 bondholders, the authority shall offer for sale to senior citizens age
6 sixty years or older, tokens or other payment devices, and may, except
7 as otherwise provided in this section, regulate the use thereof. Such
8 tokens or other payment devices shall entitle senior citizens to cross-
9 ings over the bridges and tunnels operated by the authority at a reduced
10 cost of fifty percent of the regular fare or toll imposed. Such senior
11 citizen discount shall be applied after any and all other discounts that
12 the senior citizen may be legally entitled to by law have been applied.
13 In the event the authority shall impose a surcharge in addition to the
14 regular toll for crossings over such bridges and tunnels, such surcharge
15 shall not be deemed a part of the regular crossing fare for purposes of
16 this section and the tokens or other payment devices offered for sale to
17 senior citizens as herein provided shall also entitle the purchaser to a
18 permanent exemption from the payment of any surcharge. Application for
19 such tokens or other payment devices shall be made in such manner as
20 prescribed by the authority and shall contain such information as the
21 authority may reasonably require.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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