S 39: Provides milk dealers who operate trucks throughout the state buying, delivering, and selling milk with an EZ pass free of charge, where the authority will be responsible for the cost so long as it can be proved the truck is used exclusively for such purpose.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 39 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. WALCZYK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to providing milk dealers with electronic toll collection devices free of charge The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public authorities law is amended by adding a new 2 section 378-b to read as follows: 3 § 378-b. Milk dealer EZ pass. 1. The authority shall establish and 4 issue electronic toll collection devices for single unit trucks and 5 trucks having two or more axles which are owned and operated by a person 6 or entity engaged in the purchasing, handling or selling of milk, or who 7 bargains for the purchase or sale of milk, as defined in subdivision 8 four of section two hundred fifty-three of the agriculture and markets 9 law, when such trucks are used exclusively to further the purchasing, 10 handling, and selling of milk throughout the state. The use of such 11 electronic collection devices shall be at no cost to such persons or 12 entities, and the authority shall be responsible for the cost of the 13 toll imposed for the use of the thruway system, or any portion thereof, 14 by the truck to which this device is affixed. 15 2. The authority shall promulgate rules and regulations to implement 16 the provisions of this section, including establishing the type of 17 documentation or other proof required to prove that a truck is exclu- 18 sively used to further the purchasing, handling, and selling of milk 19 throughout the state. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 21 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 22 ment, and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the imple- 23 mentation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made 24 and completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00093-01-5