Bill Text: NY A09447 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes the "detective investigators" or "rackets investigators" employed in the office of a district attorney in the MTA Long Island Rail Road no fare program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-03 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A09447 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09447-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9447
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      March 3, 2016
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        Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to including the
          district attorney detective investigators in the MTA Long Island Rail-
          road no fare program
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 1266 of  the  public  authorities
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 182 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    14. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law or the  terms  of  any
     5  contract, the authority, in consultation with the Long Island Rail Road,
     6  shall  establish  and  implement a no fare program for transportation on
     7  the Long Island Rail Road for police officers employed by  the  city  of
     8  New York, county of Nassau, Nassau county villages and cities, county of
     9  Suffolk,  Suffolk  county  villages  and  towns,  the  division of state
    10  police, the port authority of New York and New Jersey,  the  Metro-North
    11  Commuter  Railroad  Company, the New York city housing authority [and] ,
    12  the New York city transit authority  and  "detective  investigators"  or
    13  "rackets  investigators"  employed in the office of a district attorney.
    14  In establishing such program, which has as its goal increased protection
    15  and improved safety for its commuters, the authority and the Long Island
    16  Rail Road shall, among other  things,  consider:  (a)  requiring  police
    17  officers  who  ride  without  cost to register with the Long Island Rail
    18  Road as a condition of riding without cost; (b) requiring such  officers
    19  to indicate during such registration process their regular working hours
    20  and  the Long Island Rail Road trains that such officers expect to ride;
    21  and (c) periodically re-registering and re-validating such officers. The
    22  authority and the Long Island Rail Road shall also  have  the  power  to
    23  consider  other  matters necessary to carry out the goals and objectives
    24  of this section.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14087-01-6