{"id":"AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE-059","kind":"context","level":"state","jurisdiction":"New York State Thruway Authority (public benefit corporation; 570-mile Thruway system)","state":"NY","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"AVIATION-SURFACE","eco":"","issuer":"New York State Thruway Authority (Executive Director Matthew J. Driscoll)","authority":"Pub. Auth. Law § 354(5), (13) (Authority may make rules governing use of the thruway and fix and collect tolls) and § 361","instrument":"Thruway Authority emergency toll procedures: cash toll collection suspended and converted to license-plate billing on the ticketed system effective Mar. 22, 2020 at approximately 8 p.m. (announced Mar. 20, 2020)","title":"Thruway Authority Announces Emergency Toll Procedures (conversion of cash tolls to toll billing by license plate during the COVID-19 response)","dateIssued":"2020-03-20","effective":"2020-03-22 20:00","end":"2020-06-03 23:59 (cash collection resumed, Ex. 067); systemwide cashless tolling made permanent Nov. 14, 2020 (Ex. 068)","startDate":"2020-03-22","endDate":"2020-06-03","quarters":["2020Q2"],"types":["OTHER","EMP"],"addressees":["all motorists and motor carriers using the Thruway\u0027s ticketed system; toll collectors"],"clause":"\u0022[The] Thruway Authority today announced emergency toll procedures will be in place effective Sunday, March 22 at approximately 8 p.m., at cash toll lanes on the Thruway\u0027s ticketed-system. This plan will convert the collection of cash tolls to toll billing by the license plate during the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) response in New York State. The procedures will be in place until further notice.\u0022 (\u0022We are implementing these emergency toll procedures for the health and safety of our employees and motorists,\u0022 Thruway Authority Executive Director Matthew J. Driscoll said.)","enforcement":"Pub. Auth. Law § 361-a (toll violations); 21 NYCRR part 101 (tolls by mail; registration suspension for unpaid tolls under Veh. \u0026 Traf. Law § 510)","functions":["OP toll operations on the State\u0027s principal interstate corridor (I-87/I-90) converted to plate billing; toll collectors withdrawn from booths","WF","CB motorists and interstate motor carriers (billing by mail)"],"notes":"A State public authority\u0027s emergency COVID-19 order changing the manner of commerce on the Thruway; parallel instruments were issued by the Pennsylvania (Ex. 051), New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Illinois, Maine, Florida and other toll authorities in the same week (not separately saved).","sourceUrl":"https://www.thruway.ny.gov/news/pressrel/2020/03/2020-03-20-emergency-toll-procedures.html","snapshot":"https://web.archive.org/web/20200403212532/https://www.thruway.ny.gov/news/pressrel/2020/03/2020-03-20-emergency-toll-procedures.html","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":168405,"grade":"primary","character":"context","description":"","collection":"AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE","url":"/library/AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE-059","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE-059","citation":"New York State Thruway Authority (Executive Director Matthew J. Driscoll), Thruway Authority emergency toll procedures: cash toll collection suspended and converted to license-plate billing on the ticketed system effective Mar. 22, 2020 at approximately 8 p.m. (announced Mar. 20, 2020) (Ex. AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE-059)","stateName":"New York","related":["AGY-AVIATION-SURFACE-067"]}