File #: Int 0705-2008    Version: * Name: Removing restrictions on a taxicab operator’s choice of a credit/debit card processor.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 2/13/2008
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to removing restrictions on a taxicab operator’s choice of a credit/debit card processor.
Sponsors: David I. Weprin, Alan J. Gerson, John C. Liu, Rosie Mendez, Jessica S. Lappin, David Yassky, Letitia James, Tony Avella, Maria Del Carmen Arroyo, Helen D. Foster
Council Member Sponsors: 10
Attachments: 1. Committee Report 1/14/09, 2. Hearing Testimony 1/14/09, 3. Hearing Transcript 1/14/09
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2009*David I. Weprin City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/14/2009*David I. Weprin Committee on Transportation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
1/14/2009*David I. Weprin Committee on Transportation Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/13/2008*David I. Weprin City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/13/2008*David I. Weprin City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 705

 

By Council Members Weprin, Gerson, Liu, Mendez, Lappin, Yassky, James, Avella, Arroyo and Foster

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to removing restrictions on a taxicab operator’s choice of a credit/debit card processor.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

                     Section 1.  Chapter five of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-537 to read as follows:

§19-537  Credit/debit cards.  a.  For the purposes of this section, the term “merchant bank provider” shall mean an entity approved by the New York state banking department and/or the comptroller of the currency of the United States to provide credit/debit card processing services and authorized by the commission to provide such services to enable the in-cab payment of taxicab fares, surcharges, tolls and tips.

b.  The commission shall not impose any restrictions on a taxicab driver’s ability to choose a merchant bank provider.

c.  No individual or business entity that has entered into a contract with, or is otherwise regulated by, the commission shall impose restrictions on a taxicab driver’s choice of a merchant bank provider.

d.  Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, any individual or business entity that violates subdivision c of this section shall be subject to a fine of one thousand dollars for a first violation and a fine of two thousand five hundred dollars for any subsequent violations of subdivision c of this section.

§2.  This local law shall take effect thirty days after it is enacted into law.

 

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