Legislation Details

File #: Int 0305-1998    Version: * Name: Taxicabs etal., Penalties Refusals and Overcharges
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 5/13/1998
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to additional penalties for refusals and overcharges by drivers of taxicabs and for-hire vehicles.
Sponsors: Noach Dear, (by request of the Mayor)
Council Member Sponsors: 2

Int. No. 305

 

By Council Member Dear (by request of the Mayor):

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to additional penalties for refusals and overcharges by drivers of taxicabs and for-hire vehicles.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

                     Section 1. Subdivision b of section 19-507 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new paragraph 3, to read as follows:

                     3. Nothing contained in this section shall limit the authority of the commission to suspend or revoke a driver=s license on the basis of a combination of violations of applicable law or regulations of the commission, including one or more of the violations specified in subdivision a of this section.

                     §2. This local law shall take effect immediately.