File #: Int 0473-2006    Version: * Name: Priority queue status for alternative fuel taxicabs.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 11/15/2006
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to priority queue status for alternative fuel taxicabs.
Sponsors: Daniel R. Garodnick, David Yassky, Gale A. Brewer, Inez E. Dickens, Vincent J. Gentile, Alan J. Gerson, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, Jessica S. Lappin, Michael C. Nelson, Larry B. Seabrook, David I. Weprin, Melissa Mark-Viverito, James S. Oddo, Betsy Gotbaum
Council Member Sponsors: 15
Attachments: 1. Committee Report 3/26/07, 2. Hearing Transcript 3/26/07
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2009*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/26/2007*Daniel R. Garodnick Committee on Transportation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/26/2007*Daniel R. Garodnick Committee on Transportation Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/15/2006*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/15/2006*Daniel R. Garodnick City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 473

 

By Council Members Garodnick and Yassky and Council Members Brewer, Dickens, Gentile, Gerson, James, Koppell, Lappin, Nelson, Seabrook, Weprin, Mark-Viverito, Oddo and The Public Advocate (Ms. Gotbaum)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to priority queue status for alternative fuel taxicabs.

 

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 amended by adding a new section 19-534 to read as follows:

                     §19-534 Priority queue status. Taxicabs operating with alternative fuel, as defined in paragraph two of subdivision a of section 24-163.1 of this code, shall have priority in queues for the transportation of passengers from any taxicab stand wherein the commission operates such queue with a dispatcher.  For the 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, which is approved by the commissioner for use as a taxicab.

                     §2.  This local law shall take effect 30 days after it is enacted into law.

 

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