Int. No. 467-A
By Council Members Garodnick, James, Seabrook, Williams, Comrie, Gennaro, Koslowitz, Gentile, Jackson, Cabrera, Halloran and Dickens
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the permitted number of pedicab registration plates.
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision a of section 20-251 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 53 for the year 2009, is amended to read as follows:
a. The commissioner shall [commence accepting] accept application for registration plates, pursuant to section 20-255, [on the fortieth day after enactment of the local law that added this section, and shall continue accepting applications for sixty consecutive days following such commencement. During such sixty day period, persons submitting applications for registration plates shall also submit applications for pedicab business licenses pursuant to section 20-252] provided that the total number of registration plates shall not exceed eight hundred and fifty. The commissioner shall conduct an annual review of pedicab registrations, and if the number of registration plates issued falls below eight hundred and forty, the Commissioner shall issue additional registration plates in such manner as is consistent with the provisions of this subchapter as he or she by rule shall prescribe.
§2. Section 6 of Local Law 53 of 2009 is amended to read as follows:
6. This local law shall take effect immediately, except that section five of this local law shall take effect one hundred days after it shall have become a law, and provided that pedicab businesses may continue to operate without a pedicab business license, and pedicab drivers may continue to operate pedicabs without a registration plate and without a pedicab driver's license, until the expiration of one hundred days of the effective date of this local law[, and provided that subdivisions a, b, and d of section 20-251 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by section four of this local law, shall be deemed repealed eighteen months after the sixtieth day of the application period for registration plates].
§3. This local law shall take effect immediately, provided that subdivisions a, b and d of section 20-251 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 53 for the year 2009, shall not be deemed to have been repealed as of the date specified in section 6 of such local law.
LCC/RC
LS 1803
4/20/11