Senate Bill S4424

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires all toll plazas contain at least one cash lane

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S4424 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4160
Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §391, V & T L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S4305, A2999

2019-S4424 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires all toll plazas contain at least one cash lane where electronic toll collection systems are installed.

2019-S4424 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S4424 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4424
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 11, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in  relation  to  requiring
   all toll plazas contain at least one cash lane
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 391 of the vehicle and traffic law  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   § 391. [Rates  of  toll] TOLLS on motor vehicles. 1. Where a different
 rate is not otherwise prescribed or permitted  by  law,  any  person  or
 corporation  maintaining  a  plank  road,  turnpike  road  or bridge and
 authorized, or which shall be hereafter authorized, to receive tolls for
 the passage of motor vehicles over the same, may charge and receive  for
 each  and  every  motor vehicle propelled by any power other than animal
 power, passing over the same, a toll rate not greater than  the  maximum
 rate  allowed  by  law  to  be charged and received for the passage of a
 vehicle drawn over such road or bridge by two animals, provided that for
 such motor vehicles designed to carry only two persons the rate of  toll
 charged  or received shall not exceed the maximum rate allowed by law to
 be charged and received for the passage of a  vehicle  drawn  over  such
 road or bridge, without a load, by a single animal.
   2.  ANY  PERSON,  AUTHORITY,  OR CORPORATION MAINTAINING A PLANK ROAD,
 TURNPIKE ROAD OR BRIDGE WITHIN THE STATE WHO  IS  AUTHORIZED,  OR  WHICH
 SHALL BE HEREAFTER AUTHORIZED, TO RECEIVE TOLLS FOR THE PASSAGE OF MOTOR
 VEHICLES  OVER  THE SAME SHALL HAVE AT EACH TOLL PLAZA AT LEAST ONE CASH
 LANE AVAILABLE FOR THE COLLECTION OF TOLLS AND  FARES  WHERE  ELECTRONIC
 TOLL  COLLECTION  SYSTEMS,  AS  DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TWELVE OF SECTION
 TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE  OF  THE  PUBLIC  AUTHORITIES  LAW,  ARE
 INSTALLED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07824-01-9

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