File #: Int 1000-2024    Version: * Name: Permitting the use of commercial parking spaces by for-hire vehicles.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 8/15/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to permitting the use of commercial parking spaces by for-hire vehicles
Sponsors: Justin L. Brannan, Amanda Farías, Mercedes Narcisse, Chris Banks
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Summary: This bill would allow for-hire vehicles to park or stand in commercial parking meter areas for up to thirty minutes, four times per day.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1000, 2. Int. No. 1000, 3. August 15, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 8-15-24

Int. No. 1000

 

By Council Members Brannan, Farías, Narcisse and Banks

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to permitting the use of commercial parking spaces by for-hire vehicles

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subdivision a of section 19.170.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 167 for the year 2021, is amended by adding a new definition of “for-hire vehicle” in alphabetical order to read as follows:

For-hire vehicle. The term “for-hire vehicle shall have the same meaning as set forth in subdivision g of section 19-502.

§ 2. Subdivision b of section 19.170.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 167 for the year 2021, is amended to read as follows:

b. The department shall regulate commercial parking meter areas with a parking meter, mobile payment system, a parking reservation system, or other means as determined by the department. No person shall park a commercial vehicle, a for-hire vehicle, or a service vehicle, whether attended or not, in a commercial parking meter area:

1. without first purchasing the amount of parking time desired from a parking meter, mobile payment system, parking reservation system, or other means as determined by the department; or

2. in excess of three hours, unless otherwise indicated by a posted sign.

§ 3. Section 19.170.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 167 for the year 2021, is amended by adding a new subdivision g to read as follows:

g. The department shall promulgate rules to authorize for-hire vehicles to park or stand in commercial parking meter areas at individual intervals of up to thirty minutes, four times per day.

§ 4. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law.

DL/CoJM

LS # 15800

07/18/2024