File #: Int 0596-2003    Version: * Name: Authorizing DOT to extend the date of the operating authority of certain private bus services. 20045270LLY
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Land Use
On agenda: 10/24/2003
Enactment date: 11/26/2003 Law number: 2003/071
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to authorizing the department of transportation to extend the date of the operating authority of certain private bus services.
Sponsors: John C. Liu, Melinda R. Katz, Tony Avella, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Lewis A. Fidler, James F. Gennaro, Vincent J. Gentile, Alan J. Gerson, Sara M. Gonzalez, Robert Jackson, G. Oliver Koppell, Hiram Monserrate, Michael C. Nelson, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Diana Reyna, Larry B. Seabrook, Helen Sears, David I. Weprin
Council Member Sponsors: 18
Attachments: 1. Fiscal Impact Statement, 2. Hearing Transcript 10/30, 3. Hearing Transcript 11/6, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 11/6, 5. Local Law
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
11/26/2003*John C. Liu City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/26/2003*John C. Liu Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/26/2003*John C. Liu Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/6/2003*John C. Liu City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/6/2003*John C. Liu City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
11/6/2003*John C. Liu Committee on Land Use Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/6/2003*John C. Liu Committee on Land Use Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
10/30/2003*John C. Liu Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/30/2003*John C. Liu Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises Approved by SubcommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
10/24/2003*John C. Liu City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/24/2003*John C. Liu City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 596

 

By Council Members Liu, Katz, Avella, Comrie, Fidler, Gennaro, Gentile, Gerson, Gonzalez, Jackson, Koppell, Monserrate, Nelson, Recchia, Reyna, Seabrook, Sears and Weprin

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to authorizing the department of  transportation to extend the date of the operating authority of certain private  bus services.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1.  Subdivision b of section 378 of the New York city charter, as last amended by local law no. 79 of the year 2001, is hereby amended as follows:

b.  Not later than the first day of March, nineteen hundred ninety, the mayor shall designate a single agency as the responsible agency for each type of franchise currently granted by the city.  If such an agency intends to continue granting any such type of franchise, the agency shall submit to the council a proposed authorizing resolution for such type of franchise at least two years, or such shorter period as may be approved by the franchise and concession review committee, prior to the earliest expiration date of any existing franchise of that type; provided, however, that such an agency, with the approval of the franchise and concession review committee, may extend to the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred ninety-two the expiration date of any franchise which is scheduled to expire prior to that date, if such an extension is necessary in order to provide the agency with adequate time during which to prepare a proposed authorizing resolution for the type of franchise involved; and provided further, that the department of transportation, with the approval of the franchise and concession review committee, may extend the expiration date of the operating authority of any private bus company to a date not later than the [thirty-first day of December] thirtieth day of June, two thousand and [three] four; and provided further, that the department of transportation, with the approval of the franchise and concession review committee, may extend the expiration date of any franchise to operate and maintain bus shelters to a date not later than the thirty-first day of December, two thousand and four.

Section 2. This local law shall take effect immediately.