New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 21 - Miscellaneous › Chapter LVII - Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority › Part 4901 - Rules of Conduct for Transit Vehicles, Facilities, and Properties › Section 4901.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a) As used in
				these rules of conduct, the words herein shall have the meanings provided in
				this section. Words of the masculine gender shall be deemed and construed to
				include correlative words of the feminine and neuter genders. Words imparting
				the singular number shall include the plural numbers and vice-versa, unless the
				context shall otherwise dictate.
(1)
Authority
and
RGRTA
each mean the Rochester
				Genesee Regional Transportation Authority and its wholly controlled
				subsidiaries (RTS, RTS Access, RTS Genesee, RTS Livingston, RTS Ontario, RTS
				Orleans, RTS Seneca, RTS Wayne, and RTS Wyoming).
(1)
Bus shelters
shall mean
				those structures located in transit vehicle loading zones that provide cover
				for the general public to board and alight transit vehicles.
(3)
Commercial activity
or
activities
shall mean any enterprise or venture by groups or
				individuals for the purpose of promoting or selling products or services to
				RGRTA employees or the general public, whether for profit or not.
(4)
General public
shall
				mean any person or group of persons, including RGRTA employees, not acting in
				an official capacity at the time.
(5)
Harassment
shall mean
				acts occurring within or about RGRTA facilities or vehicles:
(i) when a person intentionally and
				repeatedly harasses another person by following such person in or about a
				public place or places or by engaging in a course of conduct or by repeatedly
				committing acts which places such person in reasonable fear of physical
				injury;
(ii) when a person, with
				intent to harass, annoy, or alarm another person:
(a) strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise
				subjects another person to physical contact, or attempts to or threatens to do
				the same; or
(b) follows a person
				about in a public place or places; or
(c) engages in a course of conduct or
				repeatedly commits acts which alarm or seriously annoy such other person and
				which serve no legitimate purpose.
(6)
Loitering
shall mean
				remaining in any transportation facility, unless specifically authorized to do
				so, for the purpose of soliciting or engaging in any business, trade, or
				commercial transactions involving the sale of merchandise or services, or for
				the purpose of entertaining persons by singing, dancing or playing any musical
				instrument.
(7)
Park-and-ride lots
shall mean locations officially designated
				by RGRTA at which persons may park their individual vehicles or bicycles and
				transfer to a RGRTA transit vehicle or car/vanpool vehicles. The term shall
				include all physical improvements and landscaping connected with a
				park-and-ride lot.
(8)
Person
shall mean any individual, firm, partnership,
				corporation, organization, association, or entity of any kind.
(9)
Public communication
				activity
or
public activities
shall mean the posting
				or distribution of flyers, pamphlets, brochures, books or other written
				material, collecting petition signatures, political campaigning, demonstrating,
				displaying signs, picketing, unscheduled playing of musical instruments or
				other performances, public speaking, conducting surveys, soliciting or
				receiving of funds or contributions of any kind for any purpose, or otherwise
				communicating or attempting to communicate to the general public.
(10)
Public transportation
				services
shall include fixed route and paratransit services, whether
				operated by RGRTA or any governmental agency, private person, firm or
				corporation contracting with RGRTA.
(11)
RGRTA employee
shall
				mean any part-time or full-time, temporary or regular, exempt or non-exempt,
				represented or non-represented person, including an intern, who is compensated
				by RGRTA for services by wages, salary, or other remuneration.
(12)
RGRTA facilities and
				properties
shall mean all facilities, including the RTS transit
				center, structures, schedule and news racks, kiosks, fare vending machines,
				bulletin and information boards, bus shelters, bus stop signs, lands, interest
				in lands, air rights over lands, and rights of way of all kinds that are owned,
				leased, held, or used by RGRTA for the purpose of providing public
				transportation services, including, but not limited to, park and ride lots,
				transit centers, bus shelters, and areas that are used by the public to board
				and alight transit vehicles.
(13)
RTS transit center
shall mean the downtown transit center
				located at 60 St. Paul Street, Rochester, NY.
(14)
Rules of conduct
shall
				mean the rules of conduct adopted by the board of commissioners of RGRTA on
				August 4, 2016, which regulate conduct occurring on RGRTA transit vehicles,
				within or upon RGRTA facilities and properties, and in connection with RGRTA's
				provision of public transportation services. Unless otherwise provided herein,
				such definition shall include, collectively, sections
				4901.1 through
				4901.5 of this Part.
(15)
Transit-related
				activities
shall mean activities associated with the provision or
				support of RGRTA public transportation services, the use of those services by
				the general public, or RGRTA sales, promotion and maintenance activities in
				support of RGRTA public transportation services.
(16)
Transit vehicle
shall
				include every motor vehicle, and any other device, which:
(i) is capable of being moved within, upon,
				above, or below a public highway;
(ii) is owned or operated by RGRTA, including
				road supervisor cars and tow trucks; and
(iii) includes revenue vehicles used for the
				purpose of carrying customers together on a regular schedule.