Bill Text: NY A01512 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

NOTE: There are more recent revisions of this legislation. Read Latest Draft

---

Bill Title: Directs the metropolitan transportation authority to rename President Street subway station the President Street - Medgar Evers College station and rename the Franklin Avenue subway station the Franklin Avenue - Medgar Evers College station.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-16 - APPROVAL MEMO.55 [A01512 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01512-Introduced.html

---

                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          1512
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 15, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  RICHARDSON,  ORTIZ, BARRON, JOYNER, CARROLL,
          LENTOL, WRIGHT, PERRY, DILAN -- read once and referred to the  Commit-
          tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
        AN  ACT  directing  the  metropolitan transportation authority to rename
          certain subway stations
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  President  Street subway station on the IRT Nostrand
     2  Avenue line of the New York city subway is hereby  named  the  President
     3  Street  -  Medgar  Evers  College station and the Franklin Avenue subway
     4  station on the IRT Eastern Parkway line is  hereby  named  the  Franklin
     5  Avenue  -  Medgar  Evers  College station. The MTA shall ensure that all
     6  signs, maps, and any other items issued by the MTA are updated to  accu-
     7  rately reflect the new name of the stations.
     8    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
     9  the MTA shall have 180 days to change all signs, maps, and  other  items
    10  as required in section one of this act.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04512-01-9