Legislation Details

File #: Int 0105-1998    Version: * Name: Taxi and Limousine Commission, Enforcement
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 2/5/1998
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the charter of the city of New York, in relation to designating the Taxi and Limousine Commission as the only agency with enforcement authority with respect to the regulation and licensing of medallion taxicabs.
Sponsors: Noach Dear, Thomas K. Duane, Alphonse Stabile, Lawrence A. Warden
Council Member Sponsors: 4
      Int. No. 105
 
By Council Members Dear, Duane,Stabile and Warden.
 
 
A Local Law to amend the charter of the city of New York, in relation to designating the Taxi and Limousine Commission as the only agency with enforcement authority with respect to the regulation and licensing of medallion taxicabs.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
         Section 1. Subdivision a of section two thousand three hundred and three of the charter of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
          a. The jurisdiction, powers and duties of the commission shall include the regulation and supervision of the business and industry of transportation of persons by licensed vehicles for hire in the city, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. The commission shall have the exclusive authority to enforce any laws or rules promulgated thereunder with respect to the regulation and licensing of medallion taxicabs.
    ยง2. This local law shall take effect immediately.
 
         Referred to the Committee on Transportation.
 
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