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                                   4660
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 21, 2023
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 Introduced  by M. of A. MCGOWAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the  public  authorities
   law, in relation to congestion pricing in New York City, and repealing
   certain provisions of the vehicle and traffic law, the public authori-
   ties  law, the public officers law, the tax law, and subpart A of part
   ZZZ of chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, amending the vehicle and  traf-
   fic  law  and  the  public  authorities law relating to establishing a
   central business district tolling program in the city of New York  and
   amending  the  public  officers  law  relating  to  confidentiality of
   certain public records, relating thereto
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Article 44-C of the vehicle and traffic law is REPEALED.
   §  2. Subdivision 4 of section 1630 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
 amended by section 2 of subpart A of part ZZZ of chapter 59 of the  laws
 of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   4.  Charging of tolls, taxes, fees, licenses or permits for the use of
 the highway or any of its parts [or entry into or remaining  within  the
 central  business  district  established by article forty-four-C of this
 chapter], where the imposition thereof is authorized by law.
   § 3. Paragraph (s) of subdivision 9  of  section  553  of  the  public
 authorities law is REPEALED.
   §  4. Subdivision 12-a of section 553 of the public authorities law is
 REPEALED.
   § 5. Section 553-j of the public authorities law is REPEALED.
   § 6. Paragraph (p) of subdivision 2 of section 87 of the public  offi-
 cers  law, as added by section 7 of subpart A  of part ZZZ of chapter 59
 of the laws of 2019, is REPEALED.
   § 7. Section 553-k of the public authorities law is REPEALED.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   § 8. Sections 9, 10, and 11 of subpart A of part ZZZ of chapter 59  of
 the  laws  of  2019, amending the vehicle and traffic law and the public
 authorities law relating to establishing  a  central  business  district
 tolling program in the city of New York and amending the public officers
 law relating to confidentiality of certain public records, are REPEALED.
   §  9.  Section  566-a  of  the  public  authorities law, as amended by
 section 12 of subpart A of part ZZZ of chapter 59 of the laws  of  2019,
 is amended to read as follows:
   §  566-a. Tax contract by the state. 1. It is hereby found, determined
 and declared that the authority and the carrying out  of  its  corporate
 purposes  is  in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state
 of New York, for the improvement of their health, welfare  and  prosper-
 ity, and, in the case of some of the said purposes, for the promotion of
 their  traffic,  and  that said purposes are public purposes and, in the
 case of those purposes which consist  of  vehicular  bridges,  vehicular
 tunnels  and approaches thereto [and the central business district toll-
 ing program], the project is an essential part  of  the  public  highway
 system  and  the  authority will be performing an essential governmental
 function in the exercise of the powers conferred by this title, and  the
 state  of New York covenants with the purchasers and with all subsequent
 holders and transferees of bonds issued after  January  first,  nineteen
 hundred  thirty-nine by the authority pursuant to this title, in consid-
 eration of the acceptance of any payment for the bonds that the bonds of
 the authority issued after January first, nineteen  hundred  thirty-nine
 pursuant  to this title and the income therefrom, and all moneys, funds,
 tolls and other revenues pledged to pay or secure the  payment  of  such
 bonds,  shall at all times be free from taxation except for estate taxes
 and taxes on transfers by or in contemplation of death.
   2. Nothing herein shall be construed to repeal or  supersede  any  tax
 exemptions heretofore or hereafter granted by general or other laws.
   §  10.  Subsection  (jjj)  of  section 606 of the tax law, as added by
 section 1 of subpart F of part ZZZ of chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, is
 REPEALED.
   § 11. This act shall take effect immediately.