 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4705
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 11, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
 
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the  public  authorities
          law, in relation to congestion pricing in New York City; and repealing
          certain provisions of the vehicle and traffic law, the public authori-
          ties  law, the public officers law, the tax law, and subpart A of part
          ZZZ of chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, amending the vehicle and  traf-
          fic  law  and  the  public  authorities law relating to establishing a
          central business district tolling program in the city of New York  and
          amending  the  public  officers  law  relating  to  confidentiality of
          certain public records, relating thereto
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Article 44-C of the vehicle and traffic law is REPEALED.
     2    §  2. Subdivision 4 of section 1630 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
     3  amended by section 2 of subpart A of part ZZZ of chapter 59 of the  laws
     4  of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     5    4.  Charging of tolls, taxes, fees, licenses or permits for the use of
     6  the highway or any of its parts [or entry into or remaining  within  the
     7  central  business  district  established by article forty-four-C of this
     8  chapter], where the imposition thereof is authorized by law.
     9    § 3. Paragraph (s) of subdivision 9  of  section  553  of  the  public
    10  authorities law is REPEALED.
    11    §  4. Subdivision 12-a of section 553 of the public authorities law is
    12  REPEALED.
    13    § 5. Section 553-j of the public authorities law is REPEALED.
    14    § 6. Paragraph (p) of subdivision 2 of section 87 of the public  offi-
    15  cers law is REPEALED.
    16    § 7. Section 553-k of the public authorities law is REPEALED.
    17    §  8. Sections 9, 10, and 11 of subpart A of part ZZZ of chapter 59 of
    18  the laws of 2019, amending the vehicle and traffic law  and  the  public

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  authorities  law  relating  to  establishing a central business district
     2  tolling program in the city of New York and amending the public officers
     3  law relating to confidentiality of certain public records, are REPEALED.
     4    §  9.  Section  566-a  of  the  public  authorities law, as amended by
     5  section 12 of subpart A of part ZZZ of chapter 59 of the laws  of  2019,
     6  is amended to read as follows:
     7    §  566-a. Tax contract by the state. 1. It is hereby found, determined
     8  and declared that the authority and the carrying out  of  its  corporate
     9  purposes  is  in all respects for the benefit of the people of the state
    10  of New York, for the improvement of their health, welfare  and  prosper-
    11  ity, and, in the case of some of the said purposes, for the promotion of
    12  their  traffic,  and  that said purposes are public purposes and, in the
    13  case of those purposes which consist  of  vehicular  bridges,  vehicular
    14  tunnels  and approaches thereto [and the central business district toll-
    15  ing program], the project is an essential part  of  the  public  highway
    16  system  and  the  authority will be performing an essential governmental
    17  function in the exercise of the powers conferred by this title, and  the
    18  state  of New York covenants with the purchasers and with all subsequent
    19  holders and transferees of bonds issued after  January  first,  nineteen
    20  hundred  thirty-nine by the authority pursuant to this title, in consid-
    21  eration of the acceptance of any payment for the bonds that the bonds of
    22  the authority issued after January first, nineteen  hundred  thirty-nine
    23  pursuant  to this title and the income therefrom, and all moneys, funds,
    24  tolls and other revenues pledged to pay or secure the  payment  of  such
    25  bonds,  shall at all times be free from taxation except for estate taxes
    26  and taxes on transfers by or in contemplation of death.
    27    2. Nothing herein shall be construed to repeal or  supersede  any  tax
    28  exemptions heretofore or hereafter granted by general or other laws.
    29    §  10.  Subsection  (jjj)  of  section 606 of the tax law, as added by
    30  section 1 of subpart F of part ZZZ of chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, is
    31  REPEALED.
    32    § 11. This act shall take effect immediately.
Repeals congestion pricing

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