File #: Int 0193-2024    Version: Name: Requiring taxis and for-hire vehicles to display a decal warning passengers to look for cyclists when opening the door.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 2/28/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring taxis and for-hire vehicles to display a decal warning passengers to look for cyclists when opening the door
Sponsors: Jennifer Gutiérrez, Lincoln Restler, Crystal Hudson, James F. Gennaro, Carlina Rivera , Julie Won, Tiffany Cabán, Shahana K. Hanif, Keith Powers , Rita C. Joseph, Amanda Farías, Julie Menin, Alexa Avilés, Shekar Krishnan, Sandy Nurse, Justin L. Brannan, Erik D. Bottcher, Pierina Ana Sanchez, Chris Banks, Farah N. Louis, Lynn C. Schulman, Mercedes Narcisse, Darlene Mealy
Council Member Sponsors: 23
Summary: This bill would require all taxis and for-hire vehicles to prominently display a sign on all rear passenger doors warning passengers to look for cyclists before opening the door. The signs would be provided to drivers and vehicle owners at no cost by the taxi and limousine commission.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 193-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 193, 3. Int. No. 193, 4. February 28, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-28-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - February 28, 2024, 7. Committee Report 2/10/25, 8. Hearing Testimony 2/10/25, 9. Hearing Transcript 2/10/25, 10. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 11. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 12. Proposed Int. No. 193-A - 4/24/25, 13. Committee Report 5/1/25, 14. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 15. Int. No. 193-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 16. Int. No. 193-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 17. May 1, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda
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5/1/2025AJennifer Gutiérrez City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
5/1/2025*Jennifer Gutiérrez Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/1/2025*Jennifer Gutiérrez Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/1/2025*Jennifer Gutiérrez Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/1/2025AJennifer Gutiérrez Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
2/10/2025*Jennifer Gutiérrez Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/10/2025*Jennifer Gutiérrez Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/28/2024*Jennifer Gutiérrez City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
2/28/2024*Jennifer Gutiérrez City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 193-A

 

By Council Members Gutiérrez, Restler, Hudson, Gennaro, Rivera, Won, Cabán, Hanif, Powers, Joseph, Farías, Menin, Avilés, Krishnan, Nurse, Brannan, Bottcher, Sanchez, Banks, Louis, Schulman, Narcisse and Mealy

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring taxis and for-hire vehicles to display a decal warning passengers to look for cyclists when opening the door

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Chapter 5 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-557 to read as follows:

§ 19-557 Cyclist awareness decal. a. For purposes of this section, the term “cyclist awareness decal” means a sign that warns passengers to look for cyclists before opening the door.

b. Every owner of a taxicab or for-hire vehicle shall prominently display cyclist awareness decals on the inside of the rear passenger doors.

c. Such cyclist awareness decals shall be provided by the commission at no cost to the driver or owner of the vehicle.

d. The commission shall promulgate rules establishing the penalty for violation of subdivision b of this section.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law.

Session 13

MC

LS #13439

4/23/2024 4:28pm

 

Session 12

CCM

LS #13439

11/2/2023