N.Y. Vehicle & Traffic Law § 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.