File #: Int 0864-2012    Version: * Name: Special parking for accessible for-hire vehicles.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 5/31/2012
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to special parking for accessible for-hire vehicles.
Sponsors: Gale A. Brewer, James Vacca, Vincent J. Gentile, Letitia James, Peter A. Koo, G. Oliver Koppell, Brad S. Lander, Annabel Palma, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Deborah L. Rose, Jumaane D. Williams, Ruben Wills, Ydanis A. Rodriguez, Michael C. Nelson, Stephen T. Levin, Charles Barron, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Robert Jackson, Eric A. Ulrich
Council Member Sponsors: 19
Int. No. 864
 
By Council Members Brewer, Vacca, Gentile, James, Koo, Koppell, Lander, Palma, Recchia, Rose, Williams, Wills, Rodriguez, Nelson, Levin, Barron, Mark-Viverito, Jackson and Ulrich
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to special parking for accessible for-hire vehicles.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
Section 1.  Section 19-164 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
      §19-164 Special parking for wheelchair accessible vans and accessible vehicles.  Any wheelchair accessible van or accessible vehicle, as such term is defined in section 19-534 of this title, licensed by the taxi and limousine commission actually in the process of boarding or discharging [wheelchair passengers] physically disabled persons, or escorting [wheelchair passengers] such persons to and from their destination, shall be permitted to park in any no standing zone, bicycle lane, or area in which a vehicle with a special vehicle identification permit is permitted to park.
 §2. This local law shall take effect ninety days after it is enacted into law.
 
 
 
 
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