File #: Int 0562-2003    Version: * Name: Dates of expiration of licenses and license plates for tow trucks and tow truck drivers.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Consumer Affairs
On agenda: 9/17/2003
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the dates of expiration of licenses and license plates for tow trucks and tow truck drivers.
Sponsors: Philip Reed, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Larry B. Seabrook, David I. Weprin, (by request of the Mayor)
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Attachments: 1. Memo In Support, 2. Committee Report, 3. Hearing Transcript

Int. No. 562

 

By Council Members Reed, Comrie, Seabrook and Weprin (by request of the Mayor)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the dates of expiration of licenses and license plates for tow trucks and tow truck drivers.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1.  Subdivision c of section 20-497 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 28 for the year 1987, is amended to read as follows:

c.  All licenses issued to a business pursuant to this subchapter to engage in towing and all license plates issued pursuant to this subchapter for tow trucks shall expire on [December thirty-first] June thirtieth, in [odd] even numbered years, and all licenses issued pursuant to this subchapter to tow truck drivers to operate tow trucks shall expire on October thirty-first, in even years, unless sooner suspended or revoked.

 §2.  This local law shall take effect immediately, except that all licenses to engage in towing, all license plates, and all tow truck driver licenses that are valid on the effective date of this local law shall expire on the date specified in subdivision c of section 20-497 of this code before it was amended by section 1 of this local law, and the first renewal of such licenses and license plates on or after such effective date shall be for an extended term that expires, in the case of licenses for tow truck drivers, on October 31st of 2006, and, in the case of licenses to engage in towing and tow truck license plates, on June 30th of 2006. The commissioner of the department of consumer affairs shall be authorized to prorate the applicable license fee to reflect the extension of the terms of licenses pursuant to this section 2 of this local law.