Relates to including Nassau county fire marshals in the MTA Long Island Rail Road no fare program; includes chief fire marshals, assistant chief fire marshals, supervising fire marshals, fire marshals and fire marshal trainees in Nassau county in the no fare program.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3720
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 26, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- 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 including the
Nassau county fire marshals in the MTA Long Island Railroad no fare
program
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 1266 of the public authorities
2 law, as amended by chapter 182 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read
3 as follows:
4 14. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law or the terms of any
5 contract, the authority, in consultation with the Long Island Rail Road,
6 shall establish and implement a no fare program for transportation on
7 the Long Island Rail Road for police officers employed by the city of
8 New York, county of Nassau, Nassau county villages and cities, county of
9 Suffolk, Suffolk county villages and towns, the division of state
10 police, the port authority of New York and New Jersey, the Metro-North
11 Commuter Railroad Company, the New York city housing authority [and],
12 the New York city transit authority and chief fire marshals, assistant
13 chief fire marshals, supervising fire marshals, fire marshals and fire
14 marshal trainees in Nassau county. In establishing such program, which
15 has as its goal increased protection and improved safety for its commu-
16 ters, the authority and the Long Island Rail Road shall, among other
17 things, consider: (a) requiring police officers who ride without cost to
18 register with the Long Island Rail Road as a condition of riding without
19 cost; (b) requiring such officers to indicate during such registration
20 process their regular working hours and the Long Island Rail Road trains
21 that such officers expect to ride; and (c) periodically re-registering
22 and re-validating such officers. The authority and the Long Island Rail
23 Road shall also have the power to consider other matters necessary to
24 carry out the goals and objectives of this section.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05671-01-7
