Bill Text: NY S01739 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 1739 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Subject to an appropriation for the 2019-20 state fiscal year, provides that farmers shall receive an exemption from tolls when transporting products to the city of New York for consumption in such city.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-26 - PRINT NUMBER 1739A [S01739 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01739-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         1739--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 10, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  YOUNG,  RITCHIE,  FUNKE, AKSHAR, AVELLA, BONACIC,
          HAMILTON, MARCHIONE, ORTT -- read twice and ordered printed, and  when
          printed  to be committed to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities
          and Commissions --  recommitted  to  the  Committee  on  Corporations,
          Authorities  and  Commissions in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
          -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
          and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public authorities law, in relation to providing
          toll exemptions for farmers transporting their goods to  the  city  of
          New York
          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 2858 to read as follows:
     3    §  2858.  Exemptions  from  tolls. 1. Subject to an appropriation made
     4  therefor during the two thousand nineteen -- two thousand  twenty  state
     5  fiscal year, any public authority under title nine of article two, title
     6  two  of  article  three or title three of article three of this chapter,
     7  shall provide an exemption from any toll imposed by such  authority  for
     8  transportation across, on or through any bridge, road or tunnel, for any
     9  farmer or food producer who:
    10    a.  farms  or  produces  food,  including fish and fish products, on a
    11  property located in the state; and
    12    b. is transporting such food to the city of New York for the  purposes
    13  of consumption within such city.
    14    2.  Any  person exempt from a toll pursuant to subdivision one of this
    15  section shall also be exempt from any  congestion  pricing  plan  imple-
    16  mented in the city of New York.
    17    3.  The  New  York  state thruway authority shall establish acceptable
    18  forms of proof to show that an individual does,  in  fact,  comply  with
    19  paragraphs a and b of subdivision one of this section.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    21  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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