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2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 44 - Officers and Employees; Compensation and Expenses.

§ 44. Officers  and employees; compensation and expenses. 1.  When the
  office of the  first  chairman  of  the  mass  transportation  authority
  becomes  vacant,  the  authority  shall select a chairman from among its
  members. The  Utica  transit  authority  shall  select  from  among  its
  members,  a  vice-chairman,  and  it  may  employ  a  general manager, a
  secretary, technical  experts  and  such  other  officers,  agents,  and
  employees  as  it may require and determine their qualifications, duties
  and, subject to the approval of the Board of Estimate and  Apportionment
  fix  their  compensation.  The Utica transit authority may call upon the
  chief law officer of any municipality or municipalities for  such  legal
  services  as  it may require and it shall reimburse the municipality for
  the cost of such services, or it may employ its own  counsel  and  legal
  staff.  This section shall not be construed to prevent the Utica transit
  authority from engaging by contract planning, architectural, engineering
  or other professional or consultant  services  in  the  execution  of  a
  project.
2.  The  Utica  transit  authority  may delegate to one or more of its
  agents or employees such powers or duties as it may deem proper.
3. A member of the Utica transit authority may  be  compensated  at  a
  rate  to be determined by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment of the
  city of Utica and  in  addition  shall  be  entitled  to  the  necessary
  expenses  including  traveling expenses incurred in the discharge of his
  duties.
4. Every officer, agent or employee of the Utica transit authority who
  shall sign the receipt upon the  payroll  of  the  authority  as  having
  received  the  amount  therein  mentioned  in  full payment for services
  rendered by him for the entire time specified in such  payroll,  or,  in
  the event no payroll receipt is required by the authority, shall endorse
  a  check  in  the  amount  shown  upon  such payroll and receive payment
  thereof, shall be deemed to have made an accord and satisfaction of  all
  claims against the authority for wages, salary or other compensation due
  to  such  person  from  the  authority  for  the  period covered by such
  payroll, unless at the time of signing such payroll  or  endorsing  such
  check  the  person receiving such wages or salary shall write legibly on
  the payroll  in  connection  with  his  receipt  or  on  such  check  in
  connection  with  his  endorsement  that the amount received is received
  under protest, and unless such protest is so written upon  such  payroll
  or  check,  no  recovery  shall  be  had  against the authority upon any
  further claim for wages, salaries or other compensation for  the  period
  of time covered by such payroll.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 45 - Vacancies and Removals.

§ 45. Vacancies and removals. A vacancy occurring other then by reason
  of the expiration of the term of a member of the Utica transit authority
  shall  be  filled  for  the  unexpired  term.  The governing body of the
  municipality or when two or more municipalities are acting jointly,  the
  governing  bodies  thereof  jointly  may  remove  a  member of the Utica
  transit authority for inefficiency, neglect of duty,  or  misconduct  in
  office  but  only  after  the member shall have been given a copy of the
  charges against him and an opportunity to  be  heard  in  person  or  by
  counsel in his own defense at a public hearing. In the event of removal,
  the  governing body of such municipality or the governing bodies of such
  municipalities, as the case may be, shall file with the  commissioner  a
  record  of  the  proceedings  together  with  a copy of the charges made
  against the members and its findings thereon, pending the  determination
  of  charges against a member, the governing body of such municipality or
  the governing bodies of such municipalities, as the  case  may  be,  may
  suspend him from office.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 46 - Non-Liability of Authority Members.

§ 46. Non-liability  of  authority  members.  No personal liability or
  accountability shall attach to any member of the Utica transit authority
  or to any person executing bonds of such  authority  by  reason  of  the
  execution or issuance thereof.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 47 - Disqualification of Members and Employees.

§ 47. Disqualification of members and employees. No member or employee
  of  the  Utica  transit authority should have any interest, financial or
  otherwise, direct or indirect, or engage in any business or  transaction
  or professional activity or incur any obligation of any nature, which is
  in  substantial conflict with the proper discharge of his duties, in the
  public interest.  If  any  member  or  employee  of  the  Utica  transit
  authority  owns  or controls an interest, financial or otherwise, direct
  or indirect, in any property included in any project, which was acquired
  prior to his appointment or employment, he shall disclose such  interest
  and  the  date  of  acquisition  thereof in writing to the Utica transit
  authority prior to such appointment and such disclosure shall be entered
  upon the minutes of the Utica transit authority.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 48 - Not Within Jurisdiction of Public Service Commission.

§ 48. Not  within  jurisdiction  of  public  service  commission.  The
  acquisition, construction, reconstruction or improvement of any  omnibus
  transportation  capital  project by the Utica transit authority pursuant
  to this article shall not be subject to the jurisdiction of  the  public
  service   commission   except   as  provided  in  sections  sixty-eight,
  sixty-nine, sixty-nine-a, sixty-nine-b, sixty-nine-c and sixty-nine-d of
  the transportation corporations law.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 49 - Plans for Proposed Municipal Projects; Statement of Project Costs.

§ 49. Plans  for  proposed  municipal  projects;  statement of project
  costs. The Utica transit authority shall file with  the  commissioner  a
  copy   of   each   proposed   municipal  project  embodying  the  plans,
  specifications, estimated costs and proposed method  of  financing.  Any
  change  made in a municipal project shall be filed with the commissioner
  by the Utica transit authority. With reasonable  promptness  after  each
  municipal  project shall have been completed and from time to time prior
  to completion upon  request  of  the  commissioner,  the  Utica  transit
  authority  shall  file with the commissioner a detailed statement of the
  cost thereof. All records and financial documents shall  be  subject  to
  audit  by  the commissioner and the state comptroller. Upon receipt of a
  copy of a proposed state project, or of any  proposed  changes  therein,
  the  commissioner  may  transmit  his  criticisms  and  suggestions with
  reasonable promptness to the Utica transit authority.  No  change  in  a
  state  project  may  be  made by the Utica transit authority without the
  approval of the commissioner and the state comptroller.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 50 - Statewide Transportation Planning.

§ 50. Statewide  transportation  planning.  Project  coordination with
  statewide transportation plan.  Upon  review  of  a  proposed  municipal
  project  submitted  to the commissioner under section forty-nine herein,
  the commissioner may transmit, within a reasonably prompt time, advisory
  comments to the Utica transit authority with regard  to  such  project's
  being a part of or consistent with a statewide comprehensive master plan
  for  transportation promulgated by him and approved by the governor upon
  the recommendation of the department of state or, in the absence of  any
  such   statewide   plan,   any   other  recognized  long-range  regional
  transportation plan approved by the commissioner or, in the  absence  of
  any  such  regional  plan,  sound  transportation development policy and
  planning concept. If the commissioner finds such  a  project  to  be  in
  conflict  with  such  statewide  plan,  regional  plan or transportation
  development policy and planning concept,  the  Utica  transit  authority
  shall   before  undertaking  such  project,  upon  the  request  of  the
  commissioner, state in writing  to  the  commissioner  its  reasons  for
  undertaking  the  project  notwithstanding  such  conflict. In no event,
  however, shall the Utica transit authority submit to the  United  States
  or  to  the State of New York, or any agency or instrumentality of them,
  an application for a federal or state  project  unless  the  application
  shall  have  been first approved by the commissioner as being part of or
  consistent with such statewide plan,  regional  plan  or  transportation
  development policy and planning concept.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 53 - Financial Assistance From and Cooperation With the State and Federal Governments.

§ 53. Financial  assistance  from  and  cooperation with the state and
  federal governments. The Utica transit authority is empowered to include
  in agreements with the state and/or federal governments provisions  that
  such  government  or  governments  shall  have  the  right to approve in
  advance of execution all contracts entered into by the authortiy and  to
  supervise and approve the construction, maintenance and operation of any
  project   to  which  such  government  or  governments  may  render  any
  assistance, and subject to the restrictions contained in  this  article,
  any  other  terms,  covenants  and  provisions  which  the Utica transit
  authority may deem necessary or appropriate.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 55 - Provisions of Bonds.

§ 55. Provisions of bonds.  Bonds of the Utica transit authority shall
  be  authorized  by  its resolution and may be issued singly or in one or
  more series, and shall bear such date or dates, mature at such  time  or
  times, bear interest at such rate or rates, not exceeding seven per cent
  per  annum, be in such denomination or denominations, interchangeable or
  otherwise, be in such form, either  coupon  or  registered,  carry  such
  conversion  or  registration  privileges, have such rank or priority, be
  executed in such manner with or without authentication, and  be  subject
  to  such  terms of redemption with or without premium, and be secured in
  such manner, as such resolution may provide. The bonds may  be  sold  by
  the  authority  at public or private sale at such price or prices as the
  Utica transit authority may determine.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 56 - Negotiability of Bonds.

§ 56. Negotiability  of  bonds.  Whether  or  not  any  bonds, interim
  certificates or other obligations of the Utica transit authority  issued
  pursuant  to  this  article  are  of  such  form  and character as to be
  negotiable instruments under article eight  of  the  uniform  commercial
  code, such bonds, interim certificates or other obligations shall be and
  are hereby made negotiable instruments within the meaning of and for all
  the  purposes  of  article  eight of the uniform commercial code, unless
  such bonds, interim certificates or other obligations expressly  provide
  otherwise.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 57 - Signature on Bonds.

§ 57. Signature  on  bonds.  In case any of the members or officers of
  the Utica transit authority whose signatures  appear  on  any  bonds  or
  coupons  shall  cease to be such members or officers before the delivery
  of such  bonds,  such  signatures  shall,  nevertheless,  be  valid  and
  sufficient  for all purposes, the same as if they had remained in office
  until such delivery.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 58 - Repurchase of Bonds.

§ 58. Repurchase  of  bonds.  The  Utica  transit authority shall have
  power to purchase any bonds issued by it for the purpose  of  retirement
  or  investment.    The  Utica  transit authority shall not purchase such
  bonds at a price in excess of the face value thereof plus a  premium  of
  four  per  cent. All bonds purchased for the purpose of retirement shall
  be cancelled.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 59 - Suit on Bonds.

§ 59. Suit  on  bonds. In any suit, action or proceeding upon any bond
  of the Utica transit authority or the security therefor, any  such  bond
  reciting  in  substance  that it has been issued by such an authority to
  aid in financing a municipal project to provide  omnibus  transportation
  facilities  pursuant  to the procedure required in this article shall be
  conclusively deemed to have been issued for a municipal project of  such
  character and pursuant to such procedure.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 61 - Bonds and Notes as Legal Investments.

§ 61. Bonds and notes as legal investments. The bonds and notes of the
  Utica  transit  authority are hereby made securities in which all public
  officers and bodies of the state and all  municipalities  and  municipal
  subdivisions thereof, all insurance companies and associations and other
  persons  carrying  on  an  insurance business, all banks, bankers, trust
  companies, savings banks and savings associations, including savings and
  loan associations, building and loan associations, investment  companies
  and  other  persons  carrying on a banking business, all administrators,
  guardians, executors, trustees and  other  fiduciaries,  and  all  other
  persons whatsoever who are now, or may hereafter be authorized to invest
  in  bonds  or  other  obligations of the state, may properly and legally
  invest funds, including capital, in their control or belonging to  them.
  Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of any other general or special law to
  the contrary, the bonds and notes are also hereby made securities  which
  may  be  deposited  with  and may be received by all public officers and
  bodies of the state of New York and  all  municipalities  and  municipal
  subdivisions  thereof  for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds or
  other obligations of the state is now, or may hereafter be, authorized.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 62-A - Actions Against Authority.

§ 62-a. Actions  against  authority.  Except in an action for wrongful
  death, no action or special proceeding shall be prosecuted or maintained
  against the authority, its members, officers, or employees for  personal
  injury  or  damage  to  real  or  personal property alleged to have been
  sustained by reason of the negligence or wrongful act of  the  authority
  or  of  any  member,  officer,  agent  or employee thereof, unless (i) a
  notice of claim shall have been  made  and  served  upon  the  authority
  within  the  time limit by and in compliance with section fifty-e of the
  general municipal law, (ii) it shall appear by and as an  allegation  in
  the  complaint  or  moving papers that at least thirty days have elapsed
  since the service of such notice and that adjustment or payment  thereof
  has  been  neglected  or  refused,  and  (iii)  the  action  or  special
  proceeding shall be commenced within one year and ninety days after  the
  happening  of the event upon which the claim is based. An action against
  the authority for wrongful death shall be commenced in  accordance  with
  the  notice  of  claim and time limitation provisions of title eleven of
  article nine of the public authorities law.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 63 - Liability of State or Municipality.

§ 63. Liability   of   state  or  municipality.  The  bonds  or  other
  obligations of the Utica transit authority shall not be a  debt  of  the
  state  or  a municipality and neither the state nor a municipality shall
  be liable thereon nor shall the Utica transit authority  have  power  in
  any  way  to pledge the credit of the state or a municipality, nor shall
  the transfer from the Utica transit authority to a municipality  or  the
  vesting in a municipality of property theretofore belonging to the Utica
  transit  authority  impose  upon the municipality any obligations except
  such as it may expressly assume.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 64 - Tax Exemptions.

§ 64. Tax  exemptions.  1. The Utica transit authority shall be exempt
  from the payment  of  (a)  any  taxes  or  fees  to  the  state  or  any
  subdivision  thereof,  (b)  any  fees  to any officer or employee of the
  state or of any subdivision thereof, except where it is provided  by  or
  pursuant  to law that such officer or employee is personally entitled to
  such fees as compensation for services rendered or performed by  him  in
  his official capacity.
2.  Bonds, mortgages, notes and other obligations of the Utica transit
  authority are declared to be issued for  a  public  purpose  and  to  be
  public  instrumentalities  and  together with interest thereon, shall be
  exempt from tax.
3. The property of the Utica transit authority shall  be  exempt  from
  all  local  and  municipal  taxes. The Utica transit authority may agree
  with any municipality within the Utica transit authority's  jurisdiction
  that  such  municipality  will  (a)  fix a sum which shall be paid to it
  annually by the Utica transit authority in  respect  of  each  municipal
  project;  or (b) agree that the Utica transit authority shall not pay or
  be liable to pay any sum whatsoever in respect of a municipal project or
  projects for any year or years; or (c)  agree  with  the  Utica  transit
  authority upon the sum to be paid by the Utica transit authority for any
  year  or  years in respect of a municipal project or projects, or accept
  or agree to accept a fixed sum or other consideration in  lieu  of  such
  payment;  provided, however, that the sum fixed, or agreed to be paid by
  the Utica transit authority, for any year shall in no  case  exceed  the
  sum  last  levied  as  an  annual tax upon the property included in such
  project prior to the time  of  its  acquisition  by  the  Utica  transit
  authority.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 65 - Depositories of Funds.

§ 65. Depositories  of  funds.  In order to protect funds deposited by
  the Utica transit authority all banks, bankers, trust companies or other
  persons carrying on a banking business, organized under the laws of  the
  state,  are authorized to give to the authority an undertaking with such
  sureties as shall be approved by the Utica transit authority, faithfully
  to keep and pay over upon the order of the Utica transit  authority  any
  such  deposits and agreed interest thereon, or in lieu of said sureties,
  to deposit as collateral such securities and in such amounts as  may  be
  agreed  upon  with  the Utica transit authority pursuant to a collateral
  deposit agreement in form and terms satisfactory to  the  Utica  transit
  authority. The collateral to be deposited shall consist of securities in
  which savings banks may legally invest funds within their control.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 66 - Filing of By-Laws, Rules and Regulations.

§ 66. Filing  of  by-laws, rules and regulations. 1. The Utica transit
  authority shall file with the commissioner a copy of any by-laws,  rules
  and  regulations and amendments thereto adopted by it from time to time.
  No such by-laws, rules and regulations and amendments thereto  shall  be
  effective until filed with the commissioner.
2.  No  rules  and regulations, and amendments thereto, adopted by the
  Utica transit authority from time to time, except such as relate to  its
  organization  or  internal management, shall be effective until filed in
  the office of the department of state.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 67 - Dissolution.

§ 67. Dissolution.  The  Utica  transit  authority  may  apply  to the
  supreme court  in  any  county  within  the  Utica  transit  authority's
  jurisdiction for an order dissolving such authority. The court thereupon
  shall  hold  a hearing in open court after such notice of hearing as the
  court may require. Upon a showing to the satisfaction of the court  that
  provision  has  been  made for the payment or satisfaction of all of the
  outstanding obligations of the  Utica  transit  authority  and  for  the
  necessary expenses for the liquidation thereof, the court may order that
  the  Utica  transit authority be dissolved. The court shall also provide
  for disposition of the property of the Utica transit authority.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 68 - Disposal of Records.

§ 68. Disposal  of  records.  1. Notwithstanding the provisions of any
general, special or local law, the Utica transit authority or officer or
employee thereof is hereby  empowered  to  destroy,  sell  or  otherwise
dispose  of  any  book,  paper, map photograph, microphotograph or other
record regardless of its physical form or characteristic, which has been
made, acquired, or received or is now in its custody and which the Utica
transit authority determines no longer  has  sufficient  administrative,
legal,  fiscal,  research  or  historical value to warrant its continued
retention  and  preservation,  provided  the  Utica  transit   authority
authorizes such destruction, sale or other disposition.
2.  The  provisions  of  this section shall not apply to the following
records of the Utica transit authority unless copies for  retention  are
reproduced as provided in section sixty-nine of this article:
(a)  The  official  copy of the minutes of the Utica transit authority
including appendices and attachments thereto.
(b) The official copy of  any  annual  report  of  the  Utica  transit
authority to the commissioner.
(c)  Records  which  have not been retained for such period of time as
may be required:
(1) by the federal government or any of its agencies;
(2) by rules and regulations of the state comptroller;
(3) by rules and regulations of the commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-D - Utica Transit Authority › 69 - Reproduction of Records.

§ 69. Reproduction  of  records. The Utica transit authority may cause
  any paper, document or other  record  kept  or  recorded  by  it  to  be
  recorded,   copied  or  reproduced  by  any  photographic,  photostatic,
  microfilm, microcard, miniature  photographic  or  other  process  which
  accurately  reproduces  or forms a durable medium for so reproducing the
  original. Such reproduction, when satisfactorily  identified,  shall  be
  deemed  to  be  an  original  for  all  purposes and is as admissible in
  evidence as the  original  itself  in  any  judicial  or  administrative
  proceeding,  and  an  enlargement  or  facsimile of such reproduction is
  likewise admissible in evidence  if  the  original  reproduction  is  in
  existence and available for inspection under direction of the court.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-E - Special Parkways › 70 - Special Parkways.

§ 70. Special parkways. 1. The department shall be responsible for and
shall    have   jurisdiction   for   the   purposes   of   construction,
reconstruction, improvement and maintenance of the special  parkways  as
designated  in  this  article,  and  for  expediting  the  construction,
reconstruction and improvement of said special parkways to safe,  modern
standards.
2. As used in this article, the term "special parkways" shall mean the
following  roadways which are designated and set forth within the county
of Westchester:
(a) the Hutchinson river parkway from the New York city  line  to  the
Connecticut line;
(b)  the  Saw Mill river parkway from the New York city line northerly
to interstate route six hundred eighty-four;
(c) the Cross  County  parkway  connecting  the  Saw  Mill  river  and
Hutchinson river parkways;
(d)  the  Taconic  state  parkway from the Kensico circle north to the
Westchester-Putnam line; and
(e) the Sprain Brook parkway from the Bronx river parkway at or  about
Dewitt  avenue  at Bronxville northerly to a connection with the Taconic
state parkway at Hawthorne interchange.
3. Special parkways shall  be  constructed,  reconstructed,  improved,
operated  and maintained by the department. Further, the commissioner of
transportation shall do all within his  power  to  expeditiously  secure
federal   aid   highway  financing  for  such  additional  construction,
reconstruction and/or improvement of said special  parkways  as  may  be
needed.  In  the  event  federal-aid  is to be utilized for such special
parkways, they may be  constructed,  reconstructed,  improved,  operated
and/or  maintained  subject  to  the provisions of federal-aid therefor.
Such special parkways shall  be  constructed,  reconstructed,  improved,
operated  and/or  maintained in accordance with all of the provisions of
the highway law applicable to state highways, including the acquisition,
management and disposition of property therefor, and according  to  such
designs  and  types as the commissioner may determine. All provisions of
the vehicle and  traffic  law  applicable  to  state  highways  and  not
inconsistent  with this article shall be applicable to special parkways.
Such special parkways shall be operated and maintained by the department
to such standards of maintenance as the commissioner may determine.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-E - Special Parkways › 71 - Powers of Commissioner.

§ 71. Powers  of  commissioner. In addition to all powers conferred by
  other provisions of  law,  the  commissioner  with  respect  to  special
  parkways designated by this article shall have power:
1.  Subject  to  the  approval  of  the  state  comptroller to provide
  procedures for the receipt, deposit and  security  of  moneys  collected
  under  authority  of  this  article and to designate the agent or agents
  which shall be empowered to carry out such procedures.
2. To  make  rules  and  regulations  governing  the  use  and  safety
  standards  of  the  special  parkway  facilities, including the power to
  lease property, regulate the use and  operation  of  gasoline  stations,
  restaurants  and other facilities for the public on or along the special
  parkways. Any lease of property of the special parkways shall be subject
  to the approval of the state director of the budget.
5. To limit or prohibit travel  by  types  or  classes  of  commercial
  vehicles   as   may   be  required  due  to  roadway  design  or  safety
  considerations, and to establish speed limits and  standards  of  travel
  safety on all such special parkways designated by this article.
6.  To  determine the points at which there shall be access from other
  roads and highways to the special parkways designated  by  this  article
  and  to  determine  points  of egress from such special parkways, and to
  otherwise act with respect to  control  of  access  along  such  special
  parkways.
7.  To  dispose  of,  pursuant  to  the  provisions of the highway law
  applicable  to  state  highways,  any  real  property  deemed   by   the
  commissioner  not to be necessary for the operation of special parkways,
  or to otherwise, in whole or in part, hold,  manage,  sell  or  exchange
  such  property  on  terms beneficial to the state. However, any property
  previously owned by Westchester county shall revert to the  county  when
  such  property is no longer necessary and utilized for the operations of
  special parkways.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-F - New York State Rural Public Transportation Coordination Assistance Program › 73-B - Legislative Findings and Purposes.

§ 73-b. Legislative  findings  and  purposes.  The  legislature hereby
  finds, determines, and declares that:
1. the inability of persons in rural areas to access public or private
  transportation services often  is  detrimental  to  the  public  health,
  safety  and  general  welfare because such persons are thereby unable to
  receive  regular  medical  care  and  public  services,   do   shopping,
  participate in specialized recreation and education programs, and obtain
  employment;
2.  the  number  and proportion of persons without access to essential
  transportation services in rural environs is alarmingly high  and  could
  increase  in  the  future,  thereby  further  increasing  the demand for
  specialized transportation services in said areas;
3.  added  social  burdens  frequently  fall  upon  state  and   local
  governments because of involuntary isolation of individuals and families
  in  rural  areas  who  are unable to obtain employment, public services,
  health care, educational or other essential human services;
4. lack of a comprehensive state policy to promote the development  of
  coordinated  public transportation services in the state's rural regions
  has inhibited the formation of such services, thereby contributing to  a
  great  disparity  in  the  nature  and levels of transportation services
  available in said rural areas and the inefficient use of  many  existing
  transportation resources;
5. such unique rural conditions as low population density, limitations
  of size and resources and the general absence of private common carriers
  call   for  more  innovation  and  flexibility  in  the  development  of
  coordinated public transportation  services  in  rural  environs,  which
  would  include  more  intensive  use of existing transportation services
  that  may  now  service  a   single   clientele   and   are   frequently
  underutilized;
6.  existing federal, state and local public transportation assistance
  programs are of vital importance in providing  mobility  to  persons  in
  rural  areas  of  New  York  state,  and increased coordination and more
  intensive  use  of  such  programs   would   or   could   increase   the
  cost-effectiveness  of  these  programs  and enhance the availability of
  transportation services to those individuals and families in need; and
7. the establishment of a  rural  public  transportation  coordination
  assistance  program  would or could increase the mobility of individuals
  and families in the state's rural regions and make available to those in
  need more of the limited transportation resources that now exist.
8. the establishment of a rural transportation coordination assistance
  program is intended to be in addition to existing programs and  services
  required  of  the  department of transportation and this act shall in no
  manner or means detract from the other services, resources and  programs
  now provided by such department.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-F - New York State Rural Public Transportation Coordination Assistance Program › 73-F - Local Coordination of Rural Public Transportation Services.

§ 73-f. Local  coordination  of  rural public transportation services.
  Transportation services funded under this article  must  be  coordinated
  with  transportation  services  funded by other federal, state and local
  sources.  Public,  private,  and  private  non-profit  corporations   or
  organizations  applying  for or receiving federal, state or local aid in
  order to provide or  contract  for  public  transportation  services  or
  transportation  to  the  general public and specific clientele groups in
  rural counties, shall coordinate and  integrate  funding  and  resulting
  services,  to the maximum extent possible, with services coordinators in
  said counties in accordance with this article.  No  rural  county  shall
  qualify for aid or assistance authorized pursuant to this article unless
  said  county shall first appoint a services coordinator.  An individual,
  agency or corporation may be designated a services  coordinator  by  the
  county  executive,  if  any,  or  the county legislative body in a rural
  county in accordance with rules promulgated by  the  commissioner  which
  rules   shall   establish   criteria   for   selecting  and  terminating
  coordinators. A rural county may terminate the services  of  a  services
  coordinator at any time following established county procedures for same
  and  may change its designation of a services coordinator at any time in
  accordance with this  article.  A  rural  county's  designated  services
  coordinator  may  request,  from  public  and private agencies receiving
  federal, state or local aid in that county, information or data  related
  to   transportation   services,  facilities,  equipment,  usage,  costs,
  revenues and funds as he or she may deem necessary for the  preparation,
  revision, updating and implementation of the county's coordinated public
  transportation  service  plan.   The extent to which such information is
  provided by agencies wishing  to  participate  in  the  program  may  be
  considered by the department in the awarding of grants.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-F - New York State Rural Public Transportation Coordination Assistance Program › 73-H - Operating Aid.

§ 73-h. Operating  aid. 1. For those rural counties having an approved
  and implemented coordinated public transportation service plan which has
  maintained existing levels of funding used  for  transportation  by  the
  coordinated service and has documented the need for additional operating
  aid,   the  commissioner  may,  in  consultation  with  the  interagency
  coordinating committee on  rural  public  transportation,  grant  up  to
  twenty-five  thousand  dollars per year for operating aid for up to five
  successive years, subject to annual appropriations to be included in the
  state budget.  Such aid may be extended  annually  when  the  county  or
  operator of the coordinated public transportation service has adequately
  demonstrated  the  need  for  such  continued  aid and that criteria for
  continuing aid established by rules issued by the commissioner have been
  met.
2. No such operating aid shall be paid to any rural county unless such
  county  appropriates  and  expends  at  least  twenty  percent  of   the
  coordinated  public transportation service's total annual administrative
  and operating costs. Except for other public transportation monies  paid
  by  the  department  to  the  county, such amount may include any county
  funds used for operating aid, including funds used to support any  other
  transportation  service, that have been appropriated to an account under
  the management and control  of  the  coordinated  public  transportation
  service.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-F - New York State Rural Public Transportation Coordination Assistance Program › 73-K - Aid for Counties Operating Jointly or Cooperatively.

§ 73-k. Aid  for  counties  operating jointly or cooperatively. In the
  event two or more counties jointly or cooperatively develop  coordinated
  public transportation services and designate one services coordinator or
  the  same  services coordinator, such services coordinator may apply for
  aid for each rural county as provided by this  article  and  each  rural
  county  shall be entitled to such aid to the same extent and in the same
  manner as any other rural county.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-F - New York State Rural Public Transportation Coordination Assistance Program › 73-L - Aid for Counties With Transportation Authorities.

§ 73-l. Aid for counties with transportation authorities. In the event
  a  transportation authority encompasses one or more rural counties, each
  rural county may make application for aid under this article.  Any  such
  aid  may be given to such authority provided such aid is used within the
  rural county to carry out the purposes of this section.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-F - New York State Rural Public Transportation Coordination Assistance Program › 73-M - Contract Authority.

§ 73-m. Contract  authority.  The  department  and  rural counties are
  hereby empowered to enter  into  any  agreement  or  contract  with  any
  private  or  public  agencies,  corporations or individuals necessary or
  convenient to carry out the  provisions  of  this  article.  Funds  made
  available  by  the department pursuant to this article shall be provided
  pursuant to the terms of such contracts.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-F - New York State Rural Public Transportation Coordination Assistance Program › 73-N - Cooperation and Assistance From Other State Agencies.

§ 73-n. Cooperation  and  assistance  from  other  state agencies. The
  governor shall direct that all state agencies provide  the  commissioner
  with assistance in advancing the purposes of this article, and to assure
  that  the  activities  of  the department are fully coordinated with the
  activities  of  state  agencies  providing  or  contracting  for  public
  transportation services. To effectuate the purposes of this article, the
  commissioner may request and shall be entitled to receive from any state
  agency,  and  the  same  are  authorized  to  provide,  such assistance,
  service, facilities and data as will enable the department to carry  out
  its functions, powers and duties.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-F - New York State Rural Public Transportation Coordination Assistance Program › 73-O - Functions, Powers and Duties of Departments and State Agencies.

§ 73-o. Functions,   powers   and  duties  of  departments  and  state
  agencies. Nothing contained in this article shall be deemed to  derogate
  or detract in any way from the functions, powers or duties prescribed by
  law  of  any  department  of  the  state or to interrupt or preclude the
  direct  relationship  of  any  such  department  or  agency  with  local
  agencies,  individuals  or  corporations  for  the  carrying out of such
  functions, powers and duties.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 2-F - New York State Rural Public Transportation Coordination Assistance Program › 73-P - Department Report.

§ 73-p. Department  report. Commencing December thirty-first, nineteen
  hundred eighty-seven, the department,  in  cooperation  with  the  state
  interagency coordinating committee on rural public transportation, shall
  prepare  and  submit  to the governor and the legislature a report on or
  before the first day of  January  of  each  year,  which  shall  include
  information   relating   to   the   operation   of   coordinated  public
  transportation services in rural counties then being funded  under  this
  article and any recommendations for overall program improvement; stating
  the receipts and disbursements made during the preceding fiscal year and
  adequacy  of  programs financed by federal, state, local and private aid
  in rural counties  of  the  state.  The  department  shall  analyze  the
  programs  financed in accordance with this article and recommend methods
  of  avoiding  duplication  and  increasing  the  efficacy  of   programs
  financed.  The  department  shall receive comments from the officers and
  agents of affected state and local  government  units  relative  to  the
  department's analysis.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 3 - Jurisdiction of Commissioner; Proceedings Before Commissioner; Recovery of Penalties; Court Preferences; Fees › 81 - Counsel to the Commissioner; Duties.

§ 81. Counsel  to  the  commissioner;  duties.  The commissioner shall
  appoint an attorney to represent and appear for the people of the  state
  and  the  commissioner  in  all  actions  and  proceedings involving any
  question  under  this  chapter,  or  within  the  jurisdiction  of   the
  commissioner under the railroad law, or under or in reference to any act
  or  order  of  the  commissioner,  in  relation  to functions and powers
  possessed  by  and  all  obligations  and  duties  transferred  to   the
  commissioner  from  the  public service commission and the department of
  public service by the provisions of this chapter and, if directed to  do
  so  by  the  commissioner,  to  intervene, if possible, in any action or
  proceeding  in  which  any  such  question  is  involved.  The  attorney
  appointed  by  the  commissioner  shall  have the duty of commencing and
  prosecuting all actions and proceedings directed or  authorized  by  the
  commissioner,  and to expedite in every way possible final determination
  of all such actions and proceedings.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 3 - Jurisdiction of Commissioner; Proceedings Before Commissioner; Recovery of Penalties; Court Preferences; Fees › 82 - Certain Acts Prohibited.

§ 82. Certain   acts   prohibited.   Any  employee  or  agent  of  the
  commissioner who divulges any confidential fact or information which may
  come to his knowledge during the course of any inspection or examination
  of  the  property,  accounts,  records  or  memoranda  of  any   person,
  corporation   or   municipality  subject  to  the  jurisdiction  of  the
  commissioner, except insofar as he may be directed by the  commissioner,
  or  by  a  court  or  judge,  or authorized by law, shall be guilty of a
  misdemeanor.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 3 - Jurisdiction of Commissioner; Proceedings Before Commissioner; Recovery of Penalties; Court Preferences; Fees › 83 - Reports of Commissioner.

§ 83. Reports  of commissioner. All proceedings of the commissioner in
  relation to functions and powers possessed by and  all  obligations  and
  duties   transferred   to  the  commissioner  from  the  public  service
  commission and the department of public service  by  the  provisions  of
  this  chapter,  and  records in his possession relating thereto shall be
  public records.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 3 - Jurisdiction of Commissioner; Proceedings Before Commissioner; Recovery of Penalties; Court Preferences; Fees › 84 - Practice Before the Commissioner; Immunity of Witness.

§ 84. Practice  before  the commissioner; immunity of witness. 1.  All
  hearings before the commissioner, or  an  officer  or  employee  of  the
  department  specially authorized to conduct an investigation or hearing,
  shall be  governed  by  rules  to  be  adopted  and  prescribed  by  the
  commissioner.  And  in  all  investigations,  inquiries  or hearings the
  commissioner, or an officer or  employee  of  the  department  specially
  authorized to conduct an investigation or hearing, shall not be bound by
  the technical rules of evidence.
2.  In  any investigation or inquiry by or upon any hearing before the
  commissioner, or an officer or  employee  of  the  department  specially
  authorized  to conduct an investigation or hearing, the commissioner, or
  the officer or employee conducting the  investigation  or  hearing,  may
  confer immunity in accordance with the provisions of section six hundred
  nineteen-c of the code of criminal procedure.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 3 - Jurisdiction of Commissioner; Proceedings Before Commissioner; Recovery of Penalties; Court Preferences; Fees › 85 - Service and Effect of Orders; Stay.

§ 85. Service and effect of orders; stay.
1.  Every  order of the commissioner shall be served upon every person
  or corporation to be affected thereby, either by personal delivery of  a
  copy  thereof;  or  by  mailing a copy thereof, in a sealed package with
  postage prepaid, to the person to be affected thereby or, in the case of
  a corporation, to any officer or agent thereof upon whom a  summons  may
  be  served  in  accordance with the provisions of the civil practice law
  and rules. Within a time specified in  the  order  of  the  commissioner
  every  person and corporation upon whom it is served must if so required
  in the order notify the commissioner, in writing, whether the  terms  of
  the  order  are  accepted  and  will  be  obeyed  and  in  the case of a
  corporation such notification shall be  signed  and  acknowledged  by  a
  person  or  officer  duly  authorized by the corporation to execute such
  acceptance and agreement. Every order of  the  commissioner  shall  take
  effect  at  a  time therein specified and shall continue in force either
  for a period which  may  be  designated  therein  or  until  changed  or
  abrogated by the commissioner, unless such order be unauthorized by this
  chapter or any other act or be in violation of law.
2.  No order staying or suspending an order of the commissioner fixing
  any rate, fare or charge or joint rate, fare or charge shall be made  by
  the  supreme  court otherwise than upon notice and after hearing; and if
  the order of the commissioner is suspended,  the  order  suspending  the
  same  shall  contain a specific finding based upon evidence submitted to
  the  court  and  identified  by  reference  thereto,  that   great   and
  irreparable   damage  would  otherwise  result  to  the  petitioner  and
  specifying the nature of the damage.
2023 New York Laws › TRA - Transportation › Article 3 - Jurisdiction of Commissioner; Proceedings Before Commissioner; Recovery of Penalties; Court Preferences; Fees › 87 - Attendance of Witnesses and Their Fees.

§ 87. Attendance  of witnesses and their fees. 1. The commissioner, or
  an employee of the department duly designated, shall have power to issue
  subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum.  All subpoenas shall be signed  and
  issued  by  the  commissioner  or  by  an  officer  or  employee  of the
  department specially authorized to conduct an investigation or  hearing.
  The  fees of witnesses required to attend before the commissioner, or an
  officer or employee of the department specially authorized to conduct an
  investigation or hearing, shall be the same as in the case of a subpoena
  issued out of a court of record, and paid when the  witness  is  excused
  from further attendance. Except as is herein provided subpoenas shall be
  regulated  by  the  civil practice law and rules. Whenever a subpoena is
  issued at the instance of a complainant, respondent or  other  party  to
  any proceeding before the commissioner, or an officer or employee of the
  department  specially authorized to conduct an investigation or hearing,
  the cost of service thereof and the fee of the witness shall be borne by
  the party at whose instance the witness is summoned.
2. If a person subpoenaed to attend before  the  commissioner,  or  an
  officer or employee of the department specially authorized to conduct an
  investigation  or  hearing,  fails to obey the command of such subpoena,
  without reasonable cause, or if a person in  attendance  shall,  without
  reasonable  cause,  refuse  to be sworn or to be examined or to answer a
  question or to produce a book or papers, when ordered so to  do  by  the
  commissioner  or  an  officer  or  employee  of the department specially
  authorized to conduct an investigation or hearing, or to  subscribe  and
  swear  to his deposition after it has been correctly reduced to writing,
  he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.