Creates a cashless tolling amnesty program, providing up to six months to pay a cashless toll fee to have any violation fees related to such toll waived.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8134--A
IN SENATE
April 6, 2018
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Introduced by Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to creating a
cashless tolling amnesty program
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 354-a to read as follows:
3 § 354-a. Cashless tolling amnesty program. 1. Notwithstanding any
4 section of this title or any other law, the authority shall provide an
5 amnesty program for any person, firm, corporation, or other entity
6 charged with the payment of a cashless toll fee for the use of any
7 bridge or highway operated by the authority.
8 2. Such amnesty program shall allow any person, firm, corporation, or
9 other entity charged with the payment of a cashless toll fee for the use
10 of any bridge or highway operated by the authority to pay such tolls in
11 full and to have any toll violation fees related to such paid tolls
12 waived for a period of six months from the commencement of cashless
13 tolling on a bridge or highway, or six months from the effective date of
14 this section, whichever is later.
15 § 2. Section 1266 of the public authorities law is amended by adding a
16 new subdivision 3-b to read as follows:
17 3-b. The authority shall conspicuously post on its website the most
18 current version of its fee waiver policy.
19 § 3. 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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