File #: Int 1009-2023    Version: * Name: Requiring double decker sight-seeing buses to have at least one employee present on the upper level at all times when passengers are present.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
On agenda: 4/27/2023
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring double decker sight-seeing buses to have at least one employee present on the upper level at all times when passengers are present
Sponsors: Gale A. Brewer, Marjorie Velázquez, Shekar Krishnan, Amanda Farías, Erik D. Bottcher, Kevin C. Riley
Council Member Sponsors: 6
Summary: This bill would require double decker sight-seeing tour buses to have at least one employee, who is a licensed guide, present on the upper level of the bus in addition to the driver at all times when passengers are present on the upper level.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1009, 2. Int. No. 1009, 3. April 27, 2023 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-27-23, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - April 27, 2023

Int. No. 1009

 

By Council Members Brewer, Velázquez, Krishnan, Farías, Bottcher and Riley

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring double decker sight-seeing buses to have at least one employee present on the upper level at all times when passengers are present

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subchapter 21 of chapter 2 of title 20 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 20-376.3 to read as follows:

§ 20-376.3 Staffing for double decker sight-seeing buses. In addition to its driver, any sight-seeing bus with separate lower- and upper-level seating compartments for passengers shall have at least one employee licensed pursuant to section 20-243 present on the upper level at all times when passengers are present on the upper level.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

 

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