File #: Int 0148-2002    Version: * Name: Vehicles Commercial, Toll Free Complaint Numbers
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 4/10/2002
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to requiring that commercial vehicles have stickers that list a toll-free telephone number to report complaints
Sponsors: James S. Oddo, Tracy L. Boyland, Philip Reed, Simcha Felder, Alan J. Gerson, Michael C. Nelson, Helen Sears, Dennis P. Gallagher, Joel Rivera
Council Member Sponsors: 9

Int. No. 148

 

By Council Members Oddo, Boyland, Reed, Felder, Gerson, Nelson, Sears and Gallagher; also Council Member Rivera

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York in relation to requiring that commercial vehicles have stickers that list a toll-free telephone number to report complaints

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 10-127 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by relettering existing subdivision c as subdivision d and by adding a new subdivision c to read as follows:

c. Every commercial vehicle operating on the streets of the city shall at all times have  a sticker on each side and on the back of the vehicle which shall display the words AHow Am I Driving?@ and a toll-free telephone number which is dedicated for members of the public to call if they wish to register a complaint. It shall be an affirmative defense to any violation issued pursuant to this subdivision that one or more of the stickers were  removed without the knowledge of the driver and/or company or individual to which the vehicle is registered or owned after the vehicle was dispatched onto the road.

§2. This local law shall take effect thirty days after enactment.