Bill Text: NY A00751 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for a 50% discount for bridge and tunnel tokens issued to senior citizens.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A00751 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00751-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           751
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 10, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
        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.
                                                                   LBD00243-01-9