File #: Int 0652-1999    Version: * Name: Mobile phones, motor vehicles, Prohibit
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 10/27/1999
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the use of mobile telephones while operating a motor vehicle.
Sponsors: Sheldon S. Leffler, Karen Koslowitz, Philip Reed, Julia Harrison, Walter L. McCaffrey
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2001*Sheldon S. Leffler City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/27/1999*Sheldon S. Leffler Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/27/1999*Sheldon S. Leffler City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/27/1999*Sheldon S. Leffler City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 652

 

Introduced by Council Members Leffler, Koslowitz, Reed; also Council Members Harrison and McCaffrey - read and referred to the Committee on Transportation.

 

     

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to prohibiting the use of mobile telephones while operating a motor vehicle.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-180 to read as follows:

§19-180 Prohibition on the use of mobile telephones while driving. a. For purposes of this section, the term “mobile telephone” shall mean a telephone which can be used without the use of a telephone jack and is transportable.

b. It shall be prohibited for the operator of a motor vehicle to use a mobile telephone while operating such motor vehicle on any  street, highway or road in the City.

c. A violation of this section shall be punishable by a penalty of one hundred dollars.

§2. This local law shall take effect immediately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LS#2175

10/20/99

T-1999-14