Legislation Details

File #: Int 0389-2026    Version: * Name: Requiring third-party food delivery services to verify the registration of mopeds used by food delivery workers.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
On agenda: 1/29/2026
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring third-party food delivery services to verify the registration of mopeds used by food delivery workers
Sponsors: Lincoln Restler, Farah N. Louis, Gale A. Brewer, Susan Zhuang, Lynn C. Schulman, Frank Morano, Joann Ariola
Council Member Sponsors: 7
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 389, 2. Int. No. 389, 3. January 29, 2026 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 1-29-26

Int. No. 389

 

By Council Members Restler, Louis, Brewer, Zhuang, Schulman, Morano and Ariola

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring third-party food delivery services to verify the registration of mopeds used by food delivery workers

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 20-563 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new definition of “moped” in alphabetical order to read as follows:

Moped. The term “moped” means any limited use motorcycle as defined in section 121-b of the vehicle and traffic law.

§ 2. Subdivision b of section 20-563.2 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:

4. It shall be unlawful for a third-party food delivery service to permit any food delivery worker hired, retained, or engaged by such third-party food delivery service to utilize a moped to make a delivery in connection with an online order unless such third-party food delivery service has verified the registration, required pursuant to section 2261 of the vehicle and traffic law, of such moped.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 60 days after it becomes law.

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LS #14341/14842/15443

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1/7/2026 12:43 PM