File #: Int 0799-2000    Version: * Name: For-hire vehicles, 911 non-voice transmitters.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 8/23/2000
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring that certain for-hire vehicles be equipped with 911 non-voice transmitters linked to a global positioning system.
Sponsors: Christine C. Quinn, Adolfo Carrion, June M. Eisland, Kathryn E. Freed, Lloyd Henry, Margarita Lopez, Helen M. Marshall, Stanley E. Michels, Julia Harrison, Bill Perkins
Council Member Sponsors: 10
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2001*Christine C. Quinn City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/23/2000*Christine C. Quinn Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/23/2000*Christine C. Quinn City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/23/2000*Christine C. Quinn City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 799
 
By Council Members Quinn, Carrion, Eisland, Freed, Henry, Lopez, Marshall and Michels; also Council Members Harrison and Perkins
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring that certain for-hire vehicles be equipped with 911 non-voice transmitters linked to a global positioning system.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
      Section 1.  Section 19-502 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as last amended by local law number 115 for the year 1993, is amended by adding thereto new subdivisions x and y to read as follows:
x.  "911 non-voice transmitter" shall mean a mechanism which, when activated, silently transmits a signal to the police department's emergency assistance system.
  1. "Global positioning system" shall mean a satellite-based in-vehicle
navigation system capable of rapidly identifying a vehicle's position. Such system shall allow a base station to monitor the locations of its vehicles and shall allow members of the police department, in conjunction with base station operators, to readily identify the location of a vehicle whose driver has activated the 911 non-voice transmitter.
§2.  Subdivision a of section 19-504 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as last amended by local law number 115 for the year 1993, is amended by adding thereto a new paragraph three to read as follows:
      3.  No renewal of a license for a for-hire vehicle, other than a black car or a luxury limousine, shall be issued unless such vehicle is equipped with a driver-accessible 911 non-voice transmitter linked to a global positioning system approved by the commission.
§3.  Section 19-508 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as last amended by local law number 86 for the year 1989, is amended by adding thereto a new subdivision c to read as follows:
c.  No vehicle may be operated as a for-hire vehicle, other than as a black car or luxury limousine, unless such vehicle is equipped with a driver-accessible 911 non-voice transmitter linked to a global positioning system approved by the commission.
§4.  Subdivision d of section 19-511 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 51 for the year 1996, is amended by adding thereto a new paragraph five to read as follows:
5.  No base station license shall be renewed where it has been determined three or more times within any twelve-month period that a for-hire vehicle affiliated with the licensee has been operated in violation of subdivision c of section 19-508 of this chapter.
§5.  This local law shall take effect thirty days after it is enacted into law.