File #: Int 0874-2015    Version: * Name: Commuter vans.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 8/13/2015
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to commuter vans.
Sponsors: I. Daneek Miller, Donovan J. Richards
Council Member Sponsors: 2
Summary: This bill would require commuter van service owners to have the same or more licensed drivers as registered vans. If the owner fails to produce sufficient proof, the Taxi and Limousine Commission may suspend or revoke their authorization to operate the commuter van service or refuse to renew the authorization.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 874

Int. No. 874

 

By Council Members Miller and Richards

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to commuter vans.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1.  Subdivision j of section 19-504.2 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:

                     j. (i) No application for authorization to operate a commuter van service shall be approved if the applicant has been found guilty of operating a commuter  van service without authorization to operate such commuter van service two times within  a  six-month  period  prior  to  the  date  of application,  provided  that  such violations were committed on or after the  date  occurring  six  months  after  the  effective  date  of  this subdivision.

                     (ii) No application for authorization to operate a commuter van service shall be approved or renewed if the applicant fails to produce records that show that there are, at a minimum, the same number of licensed commuter van drivers employed by the company as there are registered commuter vans affiliated with such commuter van service.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

 

 

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