File #: Int 0768-2008    Version: * Name: Requiring that vendors pass a written exam.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Consumer Affairs
On agenda: 5/14/2008
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring that vendors pass a written exam.
Sponsors: Alan J. Gerson, Annabel Palma, Kendall Stewart, Thomas White, Jr.
Council Member Sponsors: 4

Int. No.768

 

By Council Members Gerson, Palma, Stewart and White Jr.

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring that vendors pass a written exam.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1.  Section 20-455 of the administrative code of the city of New York is hereby amended to add a new subsection c to read as follows:

c.  1.  Each applicant shall be required to pass a written examination satisfactorily.  Such examination shall be given under the supervision of the commissioner and shall test the knowledge of the applicant concerning the general vending laws and rules of the city. The commissioner shall make the examination available in the applicant’s primary language and shall permit the applicant to complete the examination in his or her primary language

2.  Prior to administration of the examination the commissioner shall make available to the applicant a booklet, written in plain English, summarizing the general vending laws and rules of the city.  The commissioner shall, to the extent practicable, make such booklet available in the applicant’s primary language.

§2.  Section 17-309 of the administrative code of the city of New York is hereby amended by adding a new subsection f to read as follows:

f.  1. Each applicant for a vehicle or pushcart permit shall be required to pass a written examination satisfactorily.  Such examination shall be given under the supervision of the commissioner and shall test the knowledge of the applicant concerning the mobile food vending laws and rules of the city.   The commissioner shall make the examination available in the applicant’s primary language and shall permit the applicant to complete the examination in his or her primary language.

2.  Prior to administration of the examination the commissioner shall make available to the applicant a booklet, written in plain English, summarizing the food vending laws and rules of the city.  The commissioner shall, to the extent practicable, make such booklet available in the applicant’s primary language.

§3.  This local law shall become effective one hundred and eighty days after it shall have been enacted into law except that prior to such effective date the commissioners of the affected departments may promulgate rules or take any other action necessary for implementation of this local law. 

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