A10104 • 2025

Requires notices of liability issued for nonpayment of tolls to be uniform in form and content and contain specific information

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Sam Berger
Last action: 2026-06-01
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires notices of liability issued for nonpayment of tolls to be uniform in form and content and contain specific information

Requires notices of liability issued for nonpayment of tolls to be uniform in form and content and contain specific information Requires notices of liability issued for nonpayment of tolls to be uniform in form and content and contain information on monetary penalties, the public authority issuing the notice of liability and the rates, fees, or charges applicable to nonpayment of tolls.

What This Bill Does

Requires notices of liability issued for nonpayment of tolls to be uniform in form and content and contain specific information Requires notices of liability issued for nonpayment of tolls to be uniform in form and content and contain information on monetary penalties, the public authority issuing the notice of liability and the rates, fees, or charges applicable to nonpayment of tolls.

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Bill History

2026-06-01 Assembly
REPORTED
2026-06-01 Assembly
RULES REPORT CAL.310
2026-06-01 Assembly
ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.310
2026-06-01 Assembly
PASSED ASSEMBLY
2026-06-01 Assembly
DELIVERED TO SENATE
2026-06-01 Senate
REFERRED TO RULES
2026-05-28 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
2026-05-05 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO CODES
2026-04-24 Assembly
AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS
2026-04-24 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 10104A
2026-02-02 Assembly
REFERRED TO CORPORATIONS, AUTHORITIES AND COMMISSIONS

Official Summary Text

Requires notices of liability issued for nonpayment of tolls to be uniform in form and content and contain specific information
Requires notices of liability issued for nonpayment of tolls to be uniform in form and content and contain information on monetary penalties, the public authority issuing the notice of liability and the rates, fees, or charges applicable to nonpayment of tolls.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10104

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    February 2, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. BERGER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public authorities law, in relation to requiring
          notices of liability issued for nonpayment of tolls to be  uniform  in
          form and content and contain specific information

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 2985 of the public authorities law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
     3    (E) A NOTICE OF LIABILITY ISSUED PURSUANT TO  THIS  SECTION  SHALL  BE
     4  UNIFORM  IN FORM AND CONTENT ACROSS ALL PUBLIC AUTHORITIES AUTHORIZED TO
     5  ISSUE SUCH NOTICES PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION AND SHALL  CONTAIN  A  CLEAR
     6  AND  CONSPICUOUS  STATEMENT  OF THE MONETARY PENALTIES APPLICABLE TO THE
     7  VIOLATION  CHARGED,  INCLUDING  THE  PENALTY  AUTHORIZED  FOR  A   FIRST
     8  VIOLATION,  A  SECOND  VIOLATION  WITHIN EIGHTEEN MONTHS, AND A THIRD OR
     9  SUBSEQUENT VIOLATION WITHIN EIGHTEEN MONTHS, AS SET FORTH IN SUBDIVISION
    10  FIVE OF THIS SECTION, AND SHALL FURTHER  SPECIFY  THE  RATES,  FEES,  OR
    11  CHARGES  APPLICABLE  TO  NONPAYMENT OF TOLLS AS PRESCRIBED BY THE PUBLIC
    12  AUTHORITY ISSUING SUCH NOTICE, AND CLEARLY IDENTIFY THE PUBLIC AUTHORITY
    13  AUTHORIZED TO IMPOSE SUCH PENALTIES, RATES, FEES, OR CHARGES.  WHERE  AN
    14  AUTOMATIC  PAYMENT  METHOD  HAS  BEEN DISCONNECTED OR AN ELECTRONIC TOLL
    15  COLLECTION ACCOUNT HAS  BEEN  TERMINATED,  THE  PUBLIC  AUTHORITY  SHALL
    16  PROVIDE  WRITTEN  NOTICE  OF  SUCH  DISCONNECTION  OR TERMINATION TO THE
    17  ACCOUNT HOLDER PRIOR TO, OR CONTEMPORANEOUSLY WITH, THE ISSUANCE OF  ANY
    18  NOTICE OF LIABILITY.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    20  it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14661-01-6