Bill Text: NY S08141 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the MTA to hold public hearings prior to certain transportation facility closures; provides that the MTA hold a public hearing on any proposed closings due to construction, improvement, reconstruction or rehabilitation where such facility will be out-of-service for ninety days or longer.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-12-28 - APPROVAL MEMO.23 [S08141 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08141-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8141
                    IN SENATE
                                      April 6, 2018
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        Introduced  by Sen. BENJAMIN -- 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  requiring
          that the MTA provide ninety days' notice to community boards of subway
          station closings due to repairs and/or renovations
          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 1277-b to read as follows:
     3    §  1277-b.  Notice  of  station repairs and renovations. The authority
     4  shall provide ninety days' notice to community boards within the city of
     5  New York when a subway station will be closed for repairs  and/or  reno-
     6  vations  within  such community board district or within a one-half mile
     7  radius of such community board district.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15335-01-8