Authorizes a county board of supervisors to require that a ferry operating within such county transport without charge or fee of any kind, any soldier, sailor or marine in uniform during their term of enlistment in the service of the United States.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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S. 4315--A A. 6365--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
SENATE - ASSEMBLY
March 7, 2019
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IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transporta-
tion -- recommitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance
with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Transportation -- recommitted to the Committee on
Transportation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to providing that a county
board of supervisors shall be authorized to require that a ferry shall
carry without charge or fee of any kind for transportation any member
of the United States armed forces in uniform during their term of
enlistment in the service of the United States
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 131-g of the highway law, as amended by chapter 897
2 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 131-g. Regulation of toll rates. 1. Such boards shall have power by
4 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to authorize an alter-
5 ation, reduction or change of the rates of toll charged or received by
6 any turnpike, plank or gravel road, or other toll road within such coun-
7 ty, or by any bridge company or ferry within such county, or, if within
8 more than one county, then by joint action with the supervisors of such
9 counties, provided such alteration shall be asked for by the directors,
10 trustees or owners of such road, bridge or ferry; but that no increase
11 of toll shall be so authorized unless notice of such proposed increase
12 shall have been published once each week for three successive weeks in a
13 newspaper having general circulation in each town in which such road or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 bridge is located or in which such ferry is operated, commencing at
2 least thirty days prior to the date of such authorization; and any
3 alteration in rates of toll authorized by any board of supervisors may
4 be changed or modified by any subsequent board, on their own motion, by
5 a like vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to such board; but
6 nothing [herein] in this section contained shall affect or abridge the
7 powers of any city.
8 2. In the case of rates of toll for a ferry, such boards shall be
9 authorized to adopt a local law to provide that a ferry shall carry
10 without charge or fee of any kind for transportation between points
11 wholly within the state of New York any member of the United States
12 armed forces in uniform during their term of enlistment in the service
13 of the United States. Provided, however, that the provisions of this
14 subdivision shall not apply to a ferry owned or operated by a munici-
15 pality that is subject to the provisions of section one hundred four of
16 the transportation law.
17 § 2. Severability. The provisions of this act shall be severable and
18 if any portion thereof or the applicability thereof to any person or
19 circumstances shall be held invalid, the remainder of this act and the
20 application thereof shall not be affected thereby.
21 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.