New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 21 - Miscellaneous
Chapter LVII - Rochester-Genesee Regional Transportation Authority
Part 4901 - Rules of Conduct for Transit Vehicles, Facilities, and Properties
Section 4901.2 - Definitions
Universal Citation: 21 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 4901.2
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) As used in these rules of conduct, the words herein shall have the meanings provided in this section. Words of the masculine gender shall be deemed and construed to include correlative words of the feminine and neuter genders. Words imparting the singular number shall include the plural numbers and vice-versa, unless the context shall otherwise dictate.
(1)
Authority and RGRTA each mean the Rochester
Genesee Regional Transportation Authority and its wholly controlled
subsidiaries (RTS, RTS Access, RTS Genesee, RTS Livingston, RTS Ontario, RTS
Orleans, RTS Seneca, RTS Wayne, and RTS Wyoming).
(1)
Bus shelters shall mean
those structures located in transit vehicle loading zones that provide cover
for the general public to board and alight transit vehicles.
(3)
Commercial activity or
activities shall mean any enterprise or venture by groups or
individuals for the purpose of promoting or selling products or services to
RGRTA employees or the general public, whether for profit or not.
(4)
General public shall
mean any person or group of persons, including RGRTA employees, not acting in
an official capacity at the time.
(5)
Harassment shall mean
acts occurring within or about RGRTA facilities or vehicles:
(i) when a person intentionally and
repeatedly harasses another person by following such person in or about a
public place or places or by engaging in a course of conduct or by repeatedly
committing acts which places such person in reasonable fear of physical
injury;
(ii) when a person, with
intent to harass, annoy, or alarm another person:
(a) strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise
subjects another person to physical contact, or attempts to or threatens to do
the same; or
(b) follows a person
about in a public place or places; or
(c) engages in a course of conduct or
repeatedly commits acts which alarm or seriously annoy such other person and
which serve no legitimate purpose.
(6)
Loitering shall mean
remaining in any transportation facility, unless specifically authorized to do
so, for the purpose of soliciting or engaging in any business, trade, or
commercial transactions involving the sale of merchandise or services, or for
the purpose of entertaining persons by singing, dancing or playing any musical
instrument.
(7)
Park-and-ride lots shall mean locations officially designated
by RGRTA at which persons may park their individual vehicles or bicycles and
transfer to a RGRTA transit vehicle or car/vanpool vehicles. The term shall
include all physical improvements and landscaping connected with a
park-and-ride lot.
(8)
Person shall mean any individual, firm, partnership,
corporation, organization, association, or entity of any kind.
(9)
Public communication
activity or public activities shall mean the posting
or distribution of flyers, pamphlets, brochures, books or other written
material, collecting petition signatures, political campaigning, demonstrating,
displaying signs, picketing, unscheduled playing of musical instruments or
other performances, public speaking, conducting surveys, soliciting or
receiving of funds or contributions of any kind for any purpose, or otherwise
communicating or attempting to communicate to the general public.
(10)
Public transportation
services shall include fixed route and paratransit services, whether
operated by RGRTA or any governmental agency, private person, firm or
corporation contracting with RGRTA.
(11)
RGRTA employee shall
mean any part-time or full-time, temporary or regular, exempt or non-exempt,
represented or non-represented person, including an intern, who is compensated
by RGRTA for services by wages, salary, or other remuneration.
(12)
RGRTA facilities and
properties shall mean all facilities, including the RTS transit
center, structures, schedule and news racks, kiosks, fare vending machines,
bulletin and information boards, bus shelters, bus stop signs, lands, interest
in lands, air rights over lands, and rights of way of all kinds that are owned,
leased, held, or used by RGRTA for the purpose of providing public
transportation services, including, but not limited to, park and ride lots,
transit centers, bus shelters, and areas that are used by the public to board
and alight transit vehicles.
(13)
RTS transit center shall mean the downtown transit center
located at 60 St. Paul Street, Rochester, NY.
(14)
Rules of conduct shall
mean the rules of conduct adopted by the board of commissioners of RGRTA on
August 4, 2016, which regulate conduct occurring on RGRTA transit vehicles,
within or upon RGRTA facilities and properties, and in connection with RGRTA's
provision of public transportation services. Unless otherwise provided herein,
such definition shall include, collectively, sections 4901.1 through 4901.5 of
this Part.
(15)
Transit-related activities shall mean activities associated
with the provision or support of RGRTA public transportation services, the use
of those services by the general public, or RGRTA sales, promotion and
maintenance activities in support of RGRTA public transportation
services.
(16)
Transit
vehicle shall include every motor vehicle, and any other device,
which:
(i) is capable of being moved within,
upon, above, or below a public highway;
(ii) is owned or operated by RGRTA, including
road supervisor cars and tow trucks; and
(iii) includes revenue vehicles used for the
purpose of carrying customers together on a regular schedule.
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