Bill Text: NY A02142 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to requiring all for-hire vehicles to comply with vehicle accessibility requirements; defines accessible vehicle and for-hire vehicle base station; requires a portion of for-hire vehicles affiliated with a for-hire vehicle base station be dedicated to be accessible vehicles; requires that by 2024, 50% of such for-hire vehicles of 1200 or more affiliated with a for-hire vehicle base station be accessible vehicles; fines violators $50-$150 per day from the date violation occurred until it is cured.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to cities [A02142 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A02142-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2142 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 22, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Cities AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to for-hire vehicles; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions u and v of section 19-502 of the administra- 2 tive code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 51 of 3 the city of New York for the year 1996, are amended to read as follows: 4 u. "Black car" means a for-hire vehicle dispatched from a central 5 facility whose owner holds a franchise from the corporation or other 6 business entity which operates such central facility, or who is a member 7 of a cooperative that operates such central facility, where such central 8 facility has certified to the satisfaction of the commission that more 9 than ninety percent of the central facility's for-hire business is on a 10 payment basis other than direct cash payment by a passenger and/or 11 covered by the New York black car operators' injury compensation fund, 12 inc. pursuant to section one hundred sixty-dd of the executive law. 13 v. "Luxury limousine" means a for-hire vehicle which is dispatched 14 from a central facility which has certified to the satisfaction of the 15 commission that more than ninety percent of its for-hire business is on 16 a payment basis other than direct cash payment by a passenger, for which 17 there is maintained personal injury insurance coverage of no less than 18 five hundred thousand dollars per accident where one person is injured 19 and one million dollars per accident for all persons injured in that 20 same accident, whose passengers are charged on the basis of garage to 21 garage service and on a flat rate basis or per unit of time or mileage 22 and/or covered by the New York black car operators' injury compensation 23 fund, inc. pursuant to section one hundred sixty-dd of the executive 24 law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06446-01-9A. 2142 2 1 § 2. Section 19-506 of the administrative code of the city of New York 2 is amended by adding a new subdivision n to read as follows: 3 n. 1. For the purposes of this subdivision: 4 (a) "Accessible vehicle" shall have the same meaning as defined in 5 section 19-534 of this chapter. 6 (b) "For-hire vehicle base station" shall mean a commission licensed 7 base with a license base number that manages, organizes or dispatches 8 any for-hire vehicle. 9 2. As of the effective date of this subdivision: 10 (a) Any vehicle to be newly placed into service as a for-hire vehicle 11 affiliated with a for-hire vehicle base station to which one thousand 12 two hundred or more for-hire vehicles are affiliated, must be an acces- 13 sible vehicle until such time as the provisions of subparagraph (c) of 14 this paragraph are satisfied. 15 (b) Each for-hire vehicle base station to which one thousand two 16 hundred or more for-hire vehicles are affiliated, shall have no more 17 than ninety days to begin to convert its affiliated vehicles that it 18 replaces or retires to accessible vehicles until five percent of its 19 affiliated vehicles are accessible vehicles. 20 (c) Notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraph (b) of this para- 21 graph, by January first, two thousand twenty all for-hire vehicles base 22 stations to which one thousand two hundred or more vehicles are affil- 23 iated shall, by January first, two thousand twenty-four, convert its 24 affiliated vehicles to accessible vehicles until at least fifty percent 25 of all such vehicles are accessible vehicles. 26 Ninety days after the effective date of this subdivision, for-hire 27 vehicle base stations to which one thousand two hundred or more vehicles 28 are affiliated must submit a plan which shall include a schedule to 29 comply with this subdivision, for the approval of the commission. 30 (d) Beginning on the effective date of this subdivision, a moratorium 31 is hereby placed on the licensing of any new for-hire vehicle base 32 station or for-hire vehicle provided, however, that a for-hire vehicle 33 base station with fewer than one thousand two hundred affiliated vehi- 34 cles may add affiliated vehicles until such base has an additional twen- 35 ty percent of the number of affiliated vehicles it had on the effective 36 date of this subdivision if an environmental impact statement conducted 37 by the New York city department of environmental protection finds that 38 adding such new vehicles will not negatively affect the environment. 39 3. Failure to comply with the provisions of paragraph two of this 40 subdivision shall constitute a violation punishable by a fine of not 41 less than fifty dollars and not more than one hundred fifty dollars per 42 day per car from the date a violation occurred until the date such 43 violation is cured. A violation may also be grounds for revocation or 44 denial of licensing, or renewal thereof, under this chapter. 45 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be 46 deemed repealed three years after it shall have become a law.
