2022 New York Laws
VAT - Vehicle and Traffic
Title 8 - Respective Powers of State and Local Authorities
Article 44-C - Central Business District Tolling Program
1703 - Definitions.

§  1703.  Definitions.  For  the  purposes of this article, unless the
  context otherwise requires:
1. "City" means the city of New York.
2. "Central business district toll" means a  toll  charged  for  entry
  into  or  remaining  in  the  central  business district as described in
  section seventeen hundred four of this article.
3. "Central business district tolling program" means the  program  for
  charging tolls for vehicles that enter or remain in the central business
  district   and   includes   the   central   business   district  tolling
  infrastructure, the central business district tolling collection  system
  and the central business district tolling customer service center.
4.  "Central  business  district"  means the area described in section
  seventeen hundred four of this article for which tolls shall be  charged
  for a vehicle's entry into or remaining in such district.
5.  "Central  business  district  tolling  infrastructure"  means  the
  devices and structures including but  not  limited  to  gantries,  clear
  signage  delineating  entry  into the central business district and toll
  amounts, and power and communication lines that  the  Triborough  bridge
  and  tunnel  authority  will plan, design, construct, and use as part of
  the central business district tolling program. Such infrastructure shall
  be  planned,  designed,  installed  and  constructed  pursuant  to   the
  memorandum  of  understanding  executed pursuant to subdivision two-a of
  section seventeen hundred four of this article.
6. "Central business district tolling  collection  system"  means  the
  electronic  system of collecting tolls or other charges using electronic
  data and/or images that the Triborough bridge and tunnel authority  will
  plan,  design,  install  and  construct  pursuant  to  the memorandum of
  understanding  executed  pursuant  to  subdivision  two-a   of   section
  seventeen  hundred  four  of this article, and that such authority shall
  operate as part of the central business district tolling program.
7. "Central business district tolling customer service  center"  means
  the  customer  contact and back-office system and operation services for
  the collection of central business district  tolls  and  enforcement  of
  central business district toll violations that the Triborough bridge and
  tunnel authority will plan, design, implement and operate as part of the
  central business district tolling program.
8. "Operation date" means the date determined by the Triborough bridge
  and   tunnel  authority,  which  shall  not  be  earlier  than  December
  thirty-first, two thousand twenty, for the beginning  of  the  operation
  and  enforcement  of  the central business district tolling program. The
  operation and enforcement date shall  commence  only  after  an  initial
  program  testing period of thirty days where no collection of any tolls,
  fees, or other charges shall be authorized. As of the commencement  date
  of  operation  and  enforcement,  there  shall be a period of sixty days
  where only the established tolls may be collected without the collection
  of other fees or charges or fines.
9. "Triborough bridge and  tunnel  authority"  means  the  corporation
  organized  pursuant  to  section  five  hundred  fifty-two of the public
  authorities  law  as  consolidated  pursuant  to  section  five  hundred
  fifty-two-a  of  the public authorities law or any successor corporation
  or corporation into which it may be consolidated.