File #: Int 1214-2018    Version: * Name: Permitting Access-a-Ride vehicles to use bus lanes.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 11/14/2018
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to permitting Access-a-Ride vehicles to use bus lanes
Sponsors: Diana I. Ayala, Deborah L. Rose, Antonio Reynoso, Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Rafael Salamanca, Jr., (by request of the Brooklyn Borough President)
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Summary: This bill would permit Access-a-Ride vehicles to use bus lanes when bus lane restrictions are in effect.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1214, 2. Int. No. 1214, 3. November 14, 2018 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 11-14-2018, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - November 14, 2018

Int. No. 1214

 

By Council Members Ayala, Rose, Reynoso, Ampry-Samuel and Salamanca (by request of the Brooklyn Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to permitting Access-a-Ride vehicles to use bus lanes

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subchapter 2 of chapter 1 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-175.6 to read as follows:

§ 19-175.6 Access-a-Ride vehicles in bus lanes. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the term “Access-a-Ride vehicle” means any vehicle authorized to provide paratransit services in the city-sponsored paratransit program known as “Access-a-Ride.”

b. When bus lane restrictions are in effect on a street, it shall not be a violation of law for any Access-a-Ride vehicle to drive in such lane.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law, except that the commissioner of transportation shall take such measures as are necessary for the implementation of this local law, including the promulgation of rules, before such date.

 

 

 

 

 

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