New York A 6394: Requires the MTA and the New York city transit authority to implement certain standards pertaining to applying and removing coatings from bridges, trestles, elevated subway and railway tracks and stations

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A06394 Summary:

BILL NOA06394 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORHyndman

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §1299-hhh, Pub Auth L

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Requires public notice and hearing prior to any planned substantial change in service; defines "substantial change in service" to mean any change in frequency of service or change in route or complete or partial closing of a passenger stop or route; outlines places where posters shall be placed.

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BILL NOA06394 

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03/04/2025referred to corporations, authorities and commissions

01/07/2026referred to corporations, authorities and commissions

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6394

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 4, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

 AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring
 public notice and hearing prior to any planned substantial change in
 service of the Rochester-Genesee regional transportation authority

 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 1299-hhh to read as follows:
 3 § 1299-hhh. Public hearings and notice. 1. For the purposes of this
 4 section, the term substantial change in service shall be defined as any
 5 change in frequency of service or change in route, or complete or
 6 partial closing of a passenger stop or route.
 7 2. (a) A public hearing or hearings shall be held at least thirty days
 8 prior to any substantial change at one or more locations conveniently
 9 accessible to the persons who would be affected by such change in
 10 service.
 11 (b) At least thirty days prior to the public hearing or hearings, the
 12 authority shall give notice to the elected town board members or equiv-
 13 alent in areas affected by route changes and shall provide detailed
 14 information on the proposed service changes. In addition, the authority
 15 shall display posters in a form not smaller than eleven inches by seven-
 16 teen inches on buses and at bus stops operating on the affected route at
 17 least thirty days prior to the public hearing or hearings. Such posters
 18 shall describe the proposed service change in detail and shall provide
 19 the date, time and location of the public hearing or hearings and shall
 20 state that the proposed service change shall be open to discussion and
 21 that members of the public shall have the right to speak at the hearing.
 22 (c) Public hearing notices shall also be placed at the Central Library
 23 of Rochester and Monroe county, as well as in any public library in any

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05221-01-5

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 1 town or on any route affected by the change, and in the town or city
 2 hall of the areas affected by the change.
 3 (d) All notices in this section shall be in addition to any other
 4 notices required by law.
 5 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 6 have become a law.

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