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A00551 Summary:

BILL NOA00551
 
SAME ASSAME AS S03516
 
SPONSORPheffer Amato
 
COSPNSRStern
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd §1704-a, V & T L
 
Establishes a central business district toll exemption for police officers employed in a police force of a city with a population of one million or more.
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A00551 Actions:

BILL NOA00551
 
01/08/2025referred to corporations, authorities and commissions
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A00551 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A551
 
SPONSOR: Pheffer Amato
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing a central business district toll exemption for certain police officers   PURPOSE: To provide an exemption for New York City-employed police officers from the central business district toll.   SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 of the bill would add a new subdivision 2-a to § 1704-a of the Vehicle and Traffic Law to provide an exemption from the central busi- ness district toll for any police officer employed by New York City. Section 2 provides that the bill shall take effect immediately.   JUSTIFICATION: The Central Business District Tolling Zone extends from 60th Street in Manhattan to all of the roadways south of 60th Street, with exceptions. Under the toll zone program, passenger vehicles entering or remaining in the Central Business District would be charged a toll. The existing statute provides an exemption for any "qualifying authorized emergency vehicle," which includes police vehicles. However, in most instances the police vehicle is held and maintained in the local Manhattan precinct and is not driven by the police officers to and from their residences, which may be outside of the Central Business District Toll Zone, to the precinct. This bill would clarify that police officers who travel to their Manhattan precincts to fulfill their duty of protecting the public, will not incur a toll, which could otherwise result in a police officer paying hundreds or thousands of dollars in tolls each year. Failure to clarify that the exemption exists for police officers traveling to perform their duty, as exists once they are in their police vehicles, will create a disincentive for police officers to accept assignments in the toll zone.   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: To be determined   EFFECTIVE DATE: This bill would take effect immediately.
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A00551 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           551
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 8, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PHEFFER AMATO -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
 
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to establishing
          a central business district toll exemption for certain police officers

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 1704-a of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-a.  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, no police officer
     4  shall be charged a central business district toll if such police officer
     5  is employed in the police force of a  city  with  a  population  of  one
     6  million or more.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02407-01-5
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