STATE OF NEW YORK
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4739
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 14, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. KENNEDY, BORRELLO, CLEARE, GALLIVAN, GOUNARDES,
HOYLMAN-SIGAL, MANNION, MAY, MYRIE, ORTT -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Trans-
portation
AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to the service area
for paratransit transportation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 15-b of the transportation law, as
2 amended by chapter 385 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 4. Accessible buses. The system shall include access by transportation
5 disabled persons, including persons in wheelchairs, to not less than
6 sixty-five percent of buses in the regularly operated fleet of the
7 authority, which shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate
8 their use by transportation disabled persons. To meet this sixty-five
9 percent requirement, all buses purchased, leased, or otherwise brought
10 newly into service on the bus lines of the authority and its subsid-
11 iaries, except buses leased or otherwise put into service to relieve
12 temporary, unplanned shortages of buses in service, shall be accessible
13 to transportation disabled persons until the sixty-five percent require-
14 ment is met. Accessible buses shall be available within a service area
15 measuring three miles from any bus line of the authority and its subsid-
16 iaries.
17 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 15-c of the transportation law, as added
18 by chapter 61 of the laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
19 4. Required level of fixed-route accessibility. a. Each transportation
20 provider shall provide access to one hundred percent of its regularly-
21 operated buses that provide local, fixed-route service. To implement
22 this requirement on and after the effective date of this section, all
23 buses purchased, leased or otherwise brought into service on the bus
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 lines of each transportation provider shall be lift-equipped except any
2 bus which a provider has under contract of purchase on July first, nine-
3 teen hundred ninety for delivery after that date. Such lift-equipped
4 buses shall be properly operated and maintained to facilitate their use
5 by transit-disabled persons.
6 b. The provisions of paragraph a of this subdivision shall not apply
7 to buses that are purchased, leased or otherwise brought into service
8 that have a useful life of six years or less.
9 c. Accessible buses shall be available within a service area measuring
10 three miles from any bus line of the authority and its subsidiaries.
11 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
