File #: Int 0741-2008    Version: * Name: Accepting MTA’s Access-A-Ride identification cards and reduced-fare MetroCards with additional official proof of address of NYC residency.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 3/26/2008
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to accepting Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Access-A-Ride identification cards and reduced-fare MetroCards with additional official proof of address of New York City residency for the purpose of proving the identity and residency of applicants for New York City Disability Parking Permits.
Sponsors: Simcha Felder, Gale A. Brewer, Lewis A. Fidler, Vincent J. Gentile, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Darlene Mealy, Annabel Palma, David I. Weprin, Alan J. Gerson, Diana Reyna, John C. Liu, David Yassky, James Vacca
Council Member Sponsors: 15
Attachments: 1. Committee Report 5/9/08, 2. Hearing Testimony 5/9/08, 3. Hearing Transcript 5/9/08
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2009*Simcha Felder City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/9/2008*Simcha Felder Committee on Transportation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/9/2008*Simcha Felder Committee on Transportation Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/26/2008*Simcha Felder City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/26/2008*Simcha Felder City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 741

 

By Council Members Felder, Brewer, Fidler, Gentile, James, Koppell, Mark-Viverito, Mealy, Palma, Weprin, Gerson, Reyna, Liu, Yassky and Vacca

 

A Local Law to amend the New York city charter, in relation to accepting Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Access-A-Ride identification cards and reduced-fare MetroCards with additional official proof of address of New York City residency for the purpose of proving the identity and residency of applicants for New York City Disability Parking Permits.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section    1.                     Paragraph 15 of subdivision a of section 2903 of the New York city charter is amended by adding a new subparagraph f to read as follows:

(f)                     Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, rule or regulation, the commissioner shall accept a New York state-issued identification card, a New York state driver’s license, a metropolitan transportation authority access-a-ride identification card or a metropolitan transportation authority reduced-fare metrocard for the purpose of proving the identity and residency of applicants for the New York city special vehicle identification parking permit; provided that any person submitting a metropolitan transportation authority access-a-ride identification card or a metropolitan transportation authority reduced-fare metrocard must also submit proof of New York city residency. The department shall accept a current utility bill as proof of residency.

§2.  This local law shall take effect immediately.

 

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