New York Laws
Title 11 - Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Authority
1279-I - Open Data Reporting.

(a) "open data website" shall mean the website data.ny.gov or such
other successor website maintained by, or on behalf of, the state, as
deemed appropriate by the New York state office of information
technology services under Executive Order 95 of 2013, or any successor
agency or order;
(b) "data" shall mean final versions of statistical or factual
information that (i) are in alphanumeric form reflected in a list,
table, graph, chart or other non-narrative form, that can be digitally
transmitted or processed; (ii) are regularly created or maintained by or
on behalf of the metropolitan transportation authority, its subsidiaries
and affiliates and are controlled by such entities; and (iii) record a
measurement, transaction or determination related to the mission of the
metropolitan transportation authority, its subsidiaries and affiliates.
The term "data" shall not include image files, such as designs,
drawings, photos or scanned copies of original documents; provided,
however, that the term "data" shall include statistical or factual
information about image files and geographic information system data;
(c) "data set" shall mean a named collection of related records
maintained on a storage device, with the collection containing data
organized or formatted in a specific or prescribed way, often in tabular
form; and
(d) "publishable MTA data" shall mean data that is collected by the
metropolitan transportation authority, its subsidiaries and affiliates
where the authority, subsidiary or affiliate is permitted, required or
able to make the data available to the public, consistent with any and
all applicable laws, rules, regulations, ordinances, resolutions,
policies or other restrictions, requirements or rights associated with
the publishable MTA data, including but not limited to contractual or
other legal orders, restrictions or requirements. Data shall not be
publishable MTA data if making such data available on the open data
website would violate statute or regulation, including, but not limited
to, disclosures that would constitute an unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy, endanger the public health, safety or welfare, hinder
the operation of government, including criminal and civil
investigations, or impose an undue financial, operational or
administrative burden on the authority or its subsidiaries or
affiliates.
3. As required by Executive Order 95 of 2013, the metropolitan
transportation authority shall designate a data coordinator, who shall:
(a) have authority equivalent to that of a deputy commissioner or the
head of a division or department;
(b) have knowledge of data and resources in use by the entity; and
(c) be responsible for the compliance of the authority, its
subsidiaries and affiliates with the order.
4. The authority and its subsidiaries and affiliates shall make their
publishable MTA data available on its website and the open data website
as follows:
(a) The authority shall create a catalogue of publishable MTA data
within one hundred eighty days of the effective date of this section;
(b) The metropolitan transportation authority shall within one hundred
eighty days of the effective date of this section, submit to the
legislature and publish on its shared internet website a schedule for
making its publishable MTA data publicly available. Such schedule shall
provide for updating the data catalogue as appropriate; and
(c) The metropolitan transportation authority shall create schedules
for publishing all publishable MTA data within three years of the
effective date of this section.
5. The metropolitan transportation authority, its subsidiaries and
affiliates shall not be prevented from publishing data in advance of the
dates set in their schedules.

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