Legislation Details

File #: Int 0104-1998-A    Version: * Name: Taxi and Limousine Rentals, Violations Exemption
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 2/5/1998
Enactment date: 8/4/1998 Law number: 1998/035
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to exempting rental companies from liability for taxi and limousine commission violations committed with their vehicles.
Sponsors: Noach Dear
Council Member Sponsors: 1
Attachments: 1. Local Law 35
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
8/5/1998*Noach Dear City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/4/1998*Noach Dear Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
8/4/1998*Noach Dear Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/15/1998*Noach Dear City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/15/1998*Noach Dear City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
7/1/1998*Noach Dear Legislative Documents Unit Reprnt Amnd Item Laid on Desk   Action details Meeting details Not available
7/1/1998*Noach Dear Committee on Transportation Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
7/1/1998*Noach Dear Committee on Transportation Amended by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/1/1998*Noach Dear Committee on Transportation Amendment Proposed by Comm  Action details Meeting details Not available
7/1/1998*Noach Dear Committee on Transportation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 104-A
Introduced by Council Member Dear.
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to exempting rental companies from liability for taxi and limousine commission violations committed with their vehicles.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
      Section 1. Subdivision b of section 19-506 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by numbering the existing subdivision as paragraph 1 and by adding a new paragraph 2 to read as follows:
      2. Where a violation of this chapter or any rules promulgated thereunder is committed using a vehicle which is owned by a rental vehicle company and has been rented or leased by such rental vehicle company, it shall be an affirmative defense that the rental vehicle company did not know or have any reason to know that the person to whom it was rented or leased would operate or offer to operate for hire such vehicle as a taxicab, coach, wheelchair accessible van or for-hire vehicle in the city. For purposes of this subdivision, a "rental vehicle company" shall be defined as any person or organization or any subsidiary or affiliate, including a franchisee, in the business of providing rental vehicles to the public.
      ยง 2. This local law shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
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Note: Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] to be omitted.