32:2-23.28. Definitions

For the purpose of this act:

a. "Ancillary bus facilities" means any facilities useful in the provision of service on line haul regional or feeder bus routes, including but not limited to (1) fare collection, communication, signal and identification equipment, (2) equipment to aid in the provision of bus service to the elderly and handicapped, (3) maintenance, repair and storage facilities and equipment, and (4) bus stations for use primarily by passengers traveling between New York and New Jersey; automobile parking lots for use by people who transfer to buses on line haul regional bus routes or feeder bus routes; and shelters at roadside bus stops to afford waiting bus passengers protection from precipitation and wind;

b. "Buses" means vehicles containing seats for 12 or more passengers which are designed for and regularly used in scheduled common carrier passenger mass transportation service on streets, highways and exclusive busways and which are not designed or used for railroad purposes;

c. "Consolidated bonds" shall mean consolidated bonds of the issue established by the resolution of the port authority, adopted October 9, 1952.

d. "Develop" means plan, design, construct, improve or rehabilitate;

e. "Feeder bus routes" means those bus routes entirely within the regional bus area which connect within the port district with a bus stop on a line haul regional bus route, a passenger ferry, or a railroad station;

f. "Line haul regional bus routes" means bus routes which are entirely within the regional bus area and which extend from a point outside the county in which the bus terminal is located to a point in such county;

g. "Municipality" means a county, city, borough, village, town, township, or other similar political subdivision of New York or New Jersey;

h. "Person" means any person, including individuals, firms, partnerships, associations, societies, trusts, public utilities, public or private corporations, or other legal entities, including public or governmental bodies, which may include the port authority, as well as natural persons;

i. "Railroad station" means a stop on a rail or subway system at which passengers embark or disembark; and

j. "Regional bus area" means that area in the states of New York and New Jersey which lies within a radius of 75 miles of the bus terminal.

L.1979, c. 33, s. 2.