Bill Text: NY S02516 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the metropolitan transportation authority from establishing certain limitations relating to wheeled carts and the amount of time customers may remain in certain areas of subway stations and from ejecting customers for blocking free movement in a station or on a stairway, elevator, escalator, platform or conveyance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S02516 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02516-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2516

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 23, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RAMOS  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation

        AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation  to  prohibiting
          the  authority  from  establishing  certain  limitations  relating  to
          wheeled carts and the amount of time fare paying customers may  remain
          in  certain  areas  of  subway  stations and from ejecting fare paying
          customers for blocking free movement

          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 1266-m to read as follows:
     3    § 1266-m. Prohibition of certain actions by the authority. The author-
     4  ity shall not:
     5    (a) limit the size of wheeled carts allowed at facilities and  convey-
     6  ances of the authority;
     7    (b)  limit  the  length of time a fare paying customer may remain in a
     8  paid fair zone of a subway station;
     9    (c) eject fare paying  customers  for  blocking  free  movement  in  a
    10  station  or  on a stairway, elevator, escalator, platform or conveyance.
    11  For the purposes of this section,  the  term  "blocking  free  movement"
    12  shall  mean  interfering  with or impeding the movement of passengers or
    13  personnel of the authority.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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