Int. No. 1237
By Council Members Rodriguez, Cabrera and Yeger
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring taxi and limousine commission licensees to cooperate with police investigations by providing records and information
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Section 19-506 of the administrative code of the city of New York, is amended by adding a new subdivision n to read as follows:
n. Cooperation with police investigations. 1. Emergency police investigations. In the event of an emergency, owners of all licensed vehicles shall cooperate with police investigations by immediately, upon request, authorizing the release of the following records held by drivers, base stations, dispatch service providers, luxury limousine base stations, or black car base stations including, but not limited to:
(a) written and electronic trip records;
(b) trip receipts;
(c) e-hail application data required to be collected, transmitted and maintained pursuant to §78-21 of title 35 the rules of the city of New York; and
(d) passenger information such as name, phone number, email address, e-hail application account start and end date, registration IP address, communications between drivers and passengers and global positioning system location data.
2. Non-emergency police investigations. Upon receipt of a warrant or court order, owners and drivers of all licensed vehicles shall cooperate with police investigations by providing to police the records set forth in paragraph 1 of this subdivision.
3. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term “emergency” means a situation in which:
1. human lives are in imminent danger;
2. the police are in immediate pursuit of a person suspected of committing a crime; or
3. there exists an imminent risk of the destruction of evidence.
§ 2. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law, except that the taxi and limousine commission shall take such measures as are necessary for the implementation of this local law, including the promulgation of rules, before such date.
AW
LS # 3738
9/17/18