New York Public Authorities Law Title 11 - METROPOLITAN COMMUTER TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY

• 1260 - Short Title.
  This title may be cited as the "Metropolitan Transportation Authority Act."
• 1261 - Definitions.
  As used or referred to in this title, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: 1. "Authority" shall mean the corporation created by...
• 1262 - Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District.
  There is hereby created and established a commuter transportation district to be known as the metropolitan commuter transportation district which shall embrace the city of...
• 1263 - Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
  1. * (a) (1) There is hereby created the "metropolitan transportation authority." The authority shall be a body corporate and politic constituting a public benefit...
• 1264 - Purposes of the Authority.
  1. The purposes of the authority shall be the continuance, further development and improvement of commuter transportation and other services related thereto within the metropolitan...
• 1264-a - State of Emergency; Boarding of a Commuter Transportation by Domestic Companion Animals.
  1. For the purposes of this section: (a) "Commuter transportation" means commuter transportation, and other related services and facilities, operated by the authority or any...
• 1265 - General Powers of the Authority.
  Except as otherwise limited by this title, the authority shall have power: 1. To sue and be sued; 2. To have a seal and alter...
• 1265-a - Contracts.
  1. The provisions of this section shall only apply to procurements by the authority commenced during the period from April first, nineteen hundred eighty-seven until...
• 1265-b - Metropolitan Transportation Authority Small Business Mentoring Program.
  * 1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) "authority" means the metropolitan transportation authority and its subsidiaries consisting of...
• 1266 - Special Powers of the Authority.
  In order to effectuate the purposes of this title: 1. The authority may acquire, by purchase, gift, grant, transfer, contract or lease, any transportation facility...
• 1266-a - Medical Emergency Services.
  The authority is hereby authorized and directed to prepare and develop a medical emergency services program to be implemented at a time to be specified...
• 1266-b - Medical Emergency Services Plan; Implementation on Long Island Rail Road.
  1. a. The authority in consultation with the Long Island Rail Road is hereby authorized and directed to implement a comprehensive medical emergency services program,...
• 1266-c - Transit Projects.
  1. Subject to the provisions of this section, the authority is hereby authorized, upon the request of the New York city transit authority and upon...
• 1266-d - Long Island Rail Road Commuter's Council.
  1. There is hereby created the Long Island rail road commuter's council, to study, investigate, monitor and make recommendations with respect to the maintenance and...
• 1266-e - Metro-North Rail Commuter Council.
  1. There is hereby created the Metro-North rail commuter council to study, investigate, monitor and make recommendations with respect to the maintenance and operation of...
• 1266-f - Medical Emergency Services Plan; Implementation on Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company.
  1. The authority is hereby authorized and directed to implement a medical emergency services program not later than April first, nineteen hundred eighty-six, for the...
• 1266-g - Excess Loss Fund.
  1. Subject to the provisions of this section, the authority is authorized to issue bonds and notes, in accordance with section twelve hundred sixty-nine of...
• 1266-h - Authority Police Force.
  1. The authority is hereby authorized and empowered, to provide and maintain an authority police department and a uniformed authority police force. Each member of...
• 1266-i - The Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee.
  There is hereby established a permanent citizens advisory committee. The members of the committee shall consist of the following members: the Long Island Rail Road...
• 1266-j - Metropolitan Transportation Authority Pledge to Customers.
  1. A metropolitan transportation authority pledge to customers shall be created and adopted by the metropolitan transportation authority. A copy of such pledge shall be...
• 1266-k - Expired Fare Transfer Policy.
  * Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the authority shall, within ninety days of the effective date of this section, establish an...
• 1267 - Acquisition and Disposition of Real Property.
  1. In addition to the powers provided in section twelve hundred sixty-six of this title to acquire transportation facilities, equipment and real property, the authority...
• 1267-a - Acquisition and Disposition of Real Property by Department of Transportation.
  If funds are made available by the authority for the payment of the cost and expense of the acquisition thereof, the commissioner of transportation of...
• 1267-b - Transit Facilities for Transit Construction Fund.
  1. As used in this section, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context: a. "City" shall mean the city of New York. b....
• 1268 - Co-Operation and Assistance of Other Agencies.
  1. To avoid duplication of effort and in the interests of economy, the authority may make use of existing studies, surveys, plans, data and other...
• 1268-a - Promotion of Qualified Transportation Fringes.
  The authority shall promote the broad use of qualified transportation fringes, under section 132(f) of the internal revenue code, in order to increase the number...
• 1269 - Notes, Bonds and Other Obligations of the Authority.
  1. (a) The authority shall have power and is hereby authorized from time to time to issue its bonds, notes and other obligations in such...
• 1269-a - Metropolitan Transportation Authority Capital Program Review Board.
  1. The metropolitan transportation authority capital program review board is hereby created to exercise the powers, duties and prerogatives as hereinafter provided in sections twelve...
• 1269-b - Capital Program Plans; Approvals; Effect of Disapproval.
  1. (a) On or before October first, nineteen hundred eighty-one, and on or before October first of every fifth year thereafter, through and including October...
• 1269-c - Metropolitan Transportation Authority Capital Program Review Board; Additional Powers and Duties.
  a. The metropolitan transportation authority capital program review board, consisting of voting and non-voting members shall (1) monitor the progress of the capital elements described...
• 1269-d - Submission of Strategic Operation Plan.
  1. On or before July first nineteen hundred eighty-seven, the authority shall submit to the governor a strategic operation plan for the five year period...
• 1269-e - Financial and Operational Reports.
  The authority shall submit to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly, no later than thirty days following...
• 1269-f - Mission Statement and Measurement Report.
  1. The authority shall submit to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly, on or before October thirty-first,...
• 1269-g - Requirements for Certain Authority Contracts and Related Subcontracts.
  1. Any contractor or subcontractor subject to the posting requirements of paragraph a of subdivision three-a of section two hundred twenty of the labor law...
• 1270 - Reserve Funds and Appropriations.
  The authority may create and establish one or more reserve funds in accordance with agreements with bondholders, noteholders or the holders of other obligations of...
• 1270-a - Metropolitan Transportation Authority Special Assistance Fund.
  1. The authority shall create and establish a fund to be known as the "metropolitan transportation authority special assistance fund" which shall be kept separate...
• 1270-b - Metropolitan Transportation Authority Dutchess, Orange and Rockland Fund.
  1. The authority shall create and establish a fund to be known as the "metropolitan transportation authority Dutchess, Orange and Rockland fund" which shall be...
• 1270-c - Metropolitan Transportation Authority Dedicated Tax Fund.
  1. The authority shall establish a fund to be known as the "metropolitan transportation authority dedicated tax fund" which shall be kept separate from and...
• 1270-d - Consolidated Financings.
  1. Notwithstanding any inconsistent provisions of this or any other law, general, special or local, the authority may issue its notes, bonds and other obligations...
• 1270-e - Implementation of the Transportation Infrastructure Bond Act of 2000.
  * 1. In accordance with the provisions of the Transportation Infrastructure Bond Act of 2000 authorizing the creation of general obligation debt in the amount...
• 1270-f - Implementation of the Rebuild and Renew New York Transportation Bond Act of 2005.
  1270-f. Implementation of the rebuild and renew New York transportation bond act of two thousand five. 1. In accordance with the provisions of the rebuild...
• 1270-g - Regulation of Certain Authority Expenditures.
  The authority shall implement policies as appropriate to minimize unwarranted expenses and to protect against abuses in connection with (i) the granting of any privileges...
• 1270-h - Metropolitan Transportation Authority Finance Fund.
  1. The authority shall establish a fund to be known as the "metropolitan transportation authority finance fund" which shall be kept separate from and shall...
• 1271 - Agreement of the State.
  The state does hereby pledge to and agree with the authority and its subsidiaries, New York city transit authority and its subsidiaries, and Triborough bridge...
• 1272 - Right of State to Require Redemption of Bonds.
  Notwithstanding and in addition to any provisions for the redemption of bonds which may be contained in any contract with the holders of the bonds,...
• 1273 - Remedies of Noteholders and Bondholders.
  1. In the event that the authority shall default in the payment of principal of or interest on any issue of notes or bonds after...
• 1274 - Notes and Bonds As Legal Investment.
  The notes and bonds of the authority are hereby made securities in which all public officers and bodies of the state and all municipalities and...
• 1275 - Exemption From Taxation.
  It is hereby found, determined and declared that the creation of the authority and the carrying out of its purposes is in all respects for...
• 1276 - Actions Against the Authority.
  1. As a condition to the consent of the state to such suits against the authority, in every action against the authority for damages, for...
• 1276-a - Annual Audit of Authority.
  The comptroller shall conduct an annual audit of the books and records of the authority and its subsidiary corporations. Such audit shall include a complete...
• 1276-b - Authority Budget and Financial Plan.
  1. In addition to the requirements of section twenty-eight hundred two of this chapter, each authority budget and plan shall be posted on its website...
• 1276-c - Independent Audit of Authority.
  The independent auditor retained by the authority shall not provide to the authority, contemporaneously with the audit unless it shall have previously received written approval...
• 1276-d - Independent Audit by the Legislature.
  After the submission of the annual independent audit report to the legislature pursuant to section two thousand eight hundred two of this chapter, and after...
• 1276-e - Reporting.
  The authority shall post on its website on or before the first of May, the law firms retained by the authority which in the past...
• 1277 - Station Operation and Maintenance.
  The operation, maintenance and use of passenger stations shall be public purposes of the city of New York and the counties within the district. The...
• 1277-a - Transfer and Receipt of Surplus Funds.
  Notwithstanding any provision of this title or any other provision of law, general, special or local, the authority may from time to time transfer and...
• 1278 - Title Not Affected If in Part Unconstitutional or Ineffective.
  If any provision of any section of this title or the application thereof to any person or circumstance shall be adjudged invalid by a court...
• 1279 - Metropolitan Transportation Authority Inspector General.
  1. There is hereby created in the metropolitan transportation authority an office of metropolitan transportation authority inspector general. The inspector general shall be appointed by...
• 1279-a - Management Advisory Board.
  1. There is hereby created in the office of the metropolitan transportation authority inspector general a management advisory board, consisting of thirteen members appointed by...
• 1279-b - Transition--Election to Withdraw From the Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District.
  1. The counties of Dutchess, Orange and Rockland shall have an option to withdraw from the metropolitan commuter transportation district and have such withdrawal take...
• 1279-c - The Office of Legislative and Community Input.
  1. The chairperson of the authority shall establish the office of legislative and community input for the purpose of communicating information to, and receiving comments,...

Last modified: February 3, 2019