File #: Int 0101-2010    Version: * Name: Increasing the number of all-weather taxicab stands within the central business district of the borough of Manhattan.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 3/25/2010
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to increasing the number of all-weather taxicab stands within the central business district of the borough of Manhattan.
Sponsors: Lewis A. Fidler, Margaret S. Chin, Leroy G. Comrie, Jr., Inez E. Dickens, Robert Jackson, Karen Koslowitz, Jumaane D. Williams, Michael C. Nelson
Council Member Sponsors: 8
Int. No. 101
 
By Council Members Fidler, Chin, Comrie, Dickens, Jackson, Koslowitz, Williams and Nelson   
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to increasing the number of all-weather taxicab stands within the central business district of the borough of Manhattan.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
      Section 1.  Chapter one of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-538 to read as follows:
      § 19-538  All-weather taxicab stands.  a.  For the purposes of this section, the following term shall be defined as follows:             
       "All-weather taxicab stand" shall mean a designated structure with a roof, three walls, and bench seating where taxicabs stop for the purpose of picking up passengers.
      b.  The department, in consultation with the taxi and limousine commission and the taxi and limousine commission advisory board shall establish a minimum of fifty new all-weather taxicab stands within the central business district of the borough of Manhattan no later than three years after the effective date of this section.
      §2.      This local law shall take effect sixty days after its enactment into law.
 
 
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