File #: Int 0287-2002    Version: * Name: Requiring all taxicabs placed into operation after 12/31/03 to use alternative fuel.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 10/9/2002
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring all taxicabs placed into operation after December 31, 2003 to use alternative fuel.
Sponsors: David Yassky, John C. Liu, Alan J. Gerson, Hiram Monserrate, James Sanders, Jr., Gale A. Brewer, Lewis A. Fidler, Jose M. Serrano, Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr., Tony Avella, G. Oliver Koppell, Christine C. Quinn, Larry B. Seabrook, Melinda R. Katz, James F. Gennaro, Eric N. Gioia, Vincent J. Gentile, Bill De Blasio, Eva S. Moskowitz, Michael E. McMahon
Council Member Sponsors: 20
Attachments: 1. Committee Report, 2. Hearing Transcript
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2003*David Yassky City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/20/2003*David Yassky Committee on Transportation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/20/2003*David Yassky Committee on Transportation Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/9/2002*David Yassky City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/9/2002*David Yassky City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 287

 

By Council Members Yassky, Liu, Gerson, Monserrate, Sanders, Brewer, Serrano, Addabbo, Avella, Koppell, Quinn, Seabrook, Katz, Gennaro, Gioia, Gentile, DeBlasio and Moskowitz; also Council Member McMahon

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring all taxicabs placed into operation after December 31, 2003 to use alternative fuel.

 

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 hereby amended by REPEALING section 19-531 and enacting a new section 19-531 to read as follows:

                     19-531.  All taxicabs placed into operation after December 31, 2003 shall use alternative fuel as defined in paragraph 2 of subdivision a of section 24-163.1 of this code.  For purposes of this section, a taxicab using alternative fuel shall also include a hybrid-electric vehicle defined as a vehicle that employs a combustion engine system together with an electric propulsion system that operates in an integrated manner.  

                     §2.  This local law shall be known as the “Clean Air Taxicab Act of 2002”.

§3.  This local law shall take effect immediately after it is enacted into law.