File #: Int 1288-2025    Version: * Name: Discounted bike share rate for seniors.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
On agenda: 5/28/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a discounted bike share rate for seniors
Sponsors: Christopher Marte, Farah N. Louis, Keith Powers , Linda Lee, Sandy Nurse, Shahana K. Hanif, Gale A. Brewer, Chris Banks
Council Member Sponsors: 8
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Transportation to set a discounted rate for seniors aged 65 years or older as part of the City’s bike share program.
Attachments: 1. Int. No. 1288, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1288, 3. May 28, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-28-25
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Int. No. 1288

 

By Council Members Marte, Louis, Powers, Lee, Nurse, Hanif, Brewer and Banks

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a discounted bike share rate for seniors

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Subchapter 3 of chapter 1 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-192 to read as follows:

§ 19-192 Discounted bike share rate for seniors. a. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Bike share operator. The term “bike share operator” means the company operating the bike share program under a contract entered into through the department.

Bike share program. The term “bike share program” means the program through which public bicycles are provided for shared use within the city under a contract between the department and the bike share operator that permits payment for the use of such bicycles.

Senior. The term “senior” means a person 65 years of age or older.

b. The department shall require the provision of a discounted rate for participation in the bike share program for seniors as part of the bike share program.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 45 days after it becomes law.

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