Section 170-A. Celebration of Rosa Parks; bus companies

1. For purposes of
  this section, the terms "bus company" and "bus line" shall have the same
  meanings as set forth in subdivisions two and three of  section  two  of
  the transportation law.
    2.  On  February  fourth, two thousand eight and every February fourth
  thereafter, a day  of  commemoration  designated  as  "Rosa  Parks  Day"
  pursuant to section one hundred sixty-eight-a of this article, every bus
  company  operating  a  bus line in this state may reserve and keep empty
  one seat on each bus placed in service by such bus company in  honor  of
  civil rights activist Rosa Parks.
    3.  Compliance with the provisions of this section shall be voluntary,
  and no bus company operating a bus line in this state shall  be  subject
  to  any  liability,  either civil or criminal, solely for the failure to
  comply with the provisions of this section.