File #: Int 0749-2022    Version: Name: Providing food delivery workers with information on safety measures that mitigate the fire risks posed by powered mobility devices.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Fire and Emergency Management
On agenda: 10/12/2022
Enactment date: 3/20/2023 Law number: 2023/041
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing food delivery workers with information on safety measures that mitigate the fire risks posed by powered mobility devices
Sponsors: Alexa Avilés, Lincoln Restler, Rita C. Joseph, Amanda Farías, Shahana K. Hanif, Shaun Abreu, Keith Powers , Crystal Hudson, Erik D. Bottcher, Justin L. Brannan, Marjorie Velázquez, Mercedes Narcisse, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Robert F. Holden, Julie Menin, Tiffany Cabán, Julie Won, Sandy Nurse, Carlina Rivera , James F. Gennaro, Ari Kagan
Council Member Sponsors: 21
Summary: This bill would require that the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, in consultation with the Fire Department, establish materials that provide guidance on safe use and storage of powered mobility devices. These materials would include guidance on how to identify safe e-bikes and other electric mobility devices, as well as best practices for maintenance, storage, and charging. The bill would also cover restaurants that directly employ delivery workers.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 749-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 749, 3. Int. No. 749, 4. October 12, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 10-12-22, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - October 12, 2022, 7. Committee Report 11/14/22, 8. Hearing Testimony 11/14/22, 9. Hearing Transcript 11/14/22, 10. Proposed Int. No. 749-A - 2/27/23, 11. Committee Report 3/2/23, 12. Hearing Transcript 3/2/23, 13. March 2, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 14. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 3-2-23, 15. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - March 2, 2023, 16. Int. No. 749-A (FINAL), 17. Fiscal Impact Statement, 18. Mayor's Letter, 19. Local Law 41
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3/23/2023AAlexa Avilés City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
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3/2/2023AAlexa Avilés City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
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3/2/2023*Alexa Avilés Committee on Fire and Emergency Management Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/2/2023*Alexa Avilés Committee on Fire and Emergency Management Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/2/2023*Alexa Avilés Committee on Fire and Emergency Management Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
3/2/2023AAlexa Avilés Committee on Fire and Emergency Management Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
11/14/2022*Alexa Avilés Committee on Fire and Emergency Management Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/14/2022*Alexa Avilés Committee on Fire and Emergency Management Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/12/2022*Alexa Avilés City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/12/2022*Alexa Avilés City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 749-A

 

By Council Members Avilés, Restler, Joseph, Farías, Hanif, Abreu, Powers, Hudson, Bottcher, Brannan, Velázquez, Narcisse, Gutiérrez, Holden, Menin, Cabán, Won, Nurse, Rivera, Gennaro and Kagan

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing food delivery workers with information on safety measures that mitigate the fire risks posed by powered mobility devices

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Section 10-157 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision l to read as follows:

l. A business using a bicycle for commercial purposes shall provide to its bicycle operators the materials identified by the department of consumer and worker protection pursuant to subdivision a of section 20-1525. Unless such business has already provided such materials pursuant to subdivision b of section 20-1525, such business shall provide such materials to its bicycle operators no later than sixty days after such department publishes such materials pursuant to subdivision a of section 20-1525. Such materials shall be provided in English, the designated citywide languages as defined in section 23-1101, and any additional languages in which such materials have been published by the department of consumer and worker protection.

§ 2. Subchapter 2 of chapter 15 of title 20 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 20-1525 to read as follows:

§ 20-1525 Fire safety materials. a. The department, in consultation with the fire department, shall identify materials developed pursuant to section 15-147, regarding the fire risks posed by powered mobility devices and safety measures that mitigate such risks, for dissemination to food delivery workers. The department shall publish such materials on the city’s website.

b. A third-party food delivery service or third-party courier service shall provide the materials identified by the department pursuant to subdivision a of this section to a food delivery worker hired, retained, or engaged by any such service. A third-party food delivery service or third-party courier service shall provide such materials by email and as a link within a text message sent to a food delivery worker no later than sixty days after the department publishes such materials pursuant to subdivision a of this section. Such materials shall be provided in English, the designated citywide languages as defined in section 23-1101, and any additional languages as determined by the commissioner, provided that the department has published the materials in such additional languages.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 180 days after a local law amending the administrative code of the city of New York, relating to requiring the fire department to develop an informational campaign to educate the public on fire risks posed by powered mobility devices, as proposed in introduction number 656-A for the year 2023, takes effect.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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2/7/2022