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Directs the New York city transit authority and metropolitan transportation authority to ensure the proper operation of security cameras at subway stations and report thereon
In Assembly Committee · Corporations, Authorities And Commissions · Sponsor Michael DenDekker
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Title of bill
An act to amend the public authorities law, in relation to directing the metropolitan transportation authority and the New York city transit authority to ensure proper operation of security cameras at subway stations and issue reports thereon
Purpose
This bill directs the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to ensure proper operation of all security cameras in its operated subway stations, as well as publish annual reports as to instances of failures and the causes thereof
Summary of provisions
Section 1 amends the Public Authorities Law, as it pertains to the New York City Transit Authority, to direct the MTA to ensure proper operation of all security cameras in its operated subway stations, as well as to publish annual reports as to instances of failures and the causes of such failures.
Section 2 amends the Public Authorities Law, as it pertains to the Metropolitan Transit Authority, to direct the MTA to ensure proper operation of all security cameras in its operated subway stations, as well as to publish annual reports as to instances of failures and the causes of such failures.
Section 3 sets forth the effective date of this act.
Justification
This bill directs the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to implement measures that will make subways a safer place for passengers. Ensuring that all security cameras in New York City's subway system are operational is essential to the safety of customers. As recently as 2010, Mayor Michael Bloomberg acknowledged that "a lot of those cameras don't work" when published reports indicated that about half of subway station security cameras were inoperative.
Where instances of injuries and fatalities on New York City subway tracks have escalated in recent years, it is important for security cameras to be in constant operation to determine the causes of these incidents.
Prior legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal impact
Minimal.
Effective date
This act will take effect immediately.
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