File #: Int 0357-2006    Version: * Name: Special parking for accessible for-hire vehicles.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 5/24/2006
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: John C. Liu, G. Oliver Koppell, David Yassky, James F. Gennaro, Rosie Mendez, Gale A. Brewer, Helen D. Foster, Letitia James, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Kendall Stewart, Thomas White, Jr.
Council Member Sponsors: 12
Attachments: 1. Committee Report 6/14/06, 2. Hearing Transcript 6/14/06
Int. No. 357
 
By Council Members Liu, Koppell, Yassky, Gennaro, Mendez, Brewer, Foster, James, Mark-Viverito, Recchia Jr., Stewart and White Jr.
 
 
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 chapter 1 of title 19 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 for-hire vehicles.  Any wheelchair accessible van or accessible for-hire vehicle, as such term is defined in section 19-503.2 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 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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