Bill Text: NY A05010 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires tolls and revenues from certain bridges and tunnels in New York and New Jersey to be used to cover the costs of the construction, maintenance and operation of said bridges and tunnels.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 23-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-06 - enacting clause stricken [A05010 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05010-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5010
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 6, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  RAIA, MONTESANO, RA, McDONOUGH, MALLIOTAKIS,
          LALOR, FINCH, M. L. MILLER, MORINELLO, ASHBY -- Multi-Sponsored by  --
          M.  of  A.    BARCLAY,  BLANKENBUSH, CROUCH, DiPIETRO -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
        AN ACT to amend chapter 47 of the laws of 1931, relating to bridges  and
          tunnels in New York and New Jersey, in relation to requiring tolls and
          revenues  from  bridges and tunnels in New York and New Jersey be used
          to cover the costs of the construction, maintenance and  operation  of
          said bridges and tunnels
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 1 of chapter 47 of the laws of  1931,  relating  to
     2  bridges  and  tunnels  in New York and New Jersey, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    Section 1. The state of New Jersey by appropriate legislation  concur-
     5  ring  herein,  the  states of New York and New Jersey hereby declare and
     6  agree that the vehicular traffic moving  across  the  interstate  waters
     7  within  the  port  of New York district, created by the compact of April
     8  thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-one, between the said states, which said
     9  phrase "interstate waters" as used in this act shall include the portion
    10  of the Hudson river within the said port of New York district  north  of
    11  the  New  Jersey  state  line, constitutes a general movement of traffic
    12  which follows the most accessible and practicable routes, and  that  the
    13  users  of each bridge or tunnel over or under the said waters benefit by
    14  the existence of every other bridge or tunnel since all such bridges and
    15  tunnels as a group facilitate the movement of such traffic  and  relieve
    16  congestion  at each of the several bridges and tunnels.  Accordingly the
    17  two said states, in the interest  of  the  users  of  such  bridges  and
    18  tunnels  and  the  general  public,  hereby agree that the construction,
    19  maintenance, operation and control of  all  such  bridges  and  tunnels,
    20  heretofore  or  hereafter  authorized  by  the two said states, shall be
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        A. 5010                             2
     1  unified under the port of New York  authority  (hereinafter  called  the
     2  port  authority), to the end that the tolls and other revenues therefrom
     3  shall be [applied so far as practicable] used exclusively to  cover  the
     4  costs of the construction, maintenance and operation of said bridges and
     5  tunnels  as  a group [and economies in operation effected], it being the
     6  policy of the two said states that such bridges and tunnels shall  as  a
     7  group be in all respects self-sustaining.
     8    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect upon the enactment into law by the
     9  state of New Jersey of legislation having an identical  effect;  but  if
    10  the  state  of  New  Jersey shall have already enacted such legislation,
    11  then this act shall take effect immediately and provided that the  state
    12  of New Jersey shall notify the legislative bill drafting commission upon
    13  the  occurrence  of the enactment of the provisions provided for in this
    14  act in order that the commission may maintain  an  accurate  and  timely
    15  effective data base of the official text of the laws of the state of New
    16  York  in  furtherance  of  effecting the provisions of section 44 of the
    17  legislative law and section 70-b of the public officers law.