Bill Text: NY A07697 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Clarifies regulations requiring transportation network company cars to be distinguishable.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to transportation [A07697 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A07697-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7697 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 16, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to clarifying regulations requiring transportation network company cars to be distinguishable The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 1696 of the vehicle and traffic 2 law, as added by section 2 of part AAA of chapter 59 of the laws of 3 2017, is amended to read as follows: 4 5. The department shall promulgate regulations to ensure that each TNC 5 vehicle is easily identified as such and that the TNC for which the TNC 6 driver is providing the TNC service or TNC prearranged trip is distin- 7 guishable. For the purposes of this section, distinguishable shall be 8 satisfied by affixing an illuminated fixture, subject to the provisions 9 of subdivision forty-one of section three hundred seventy-five of this 10 chapter, to the TNC driver's rooftop displaying the insignia, name, or 11 title of the TNC. Such marking shall be [in such] subject to the form as 12 is approved by the commissioner, and shall be attached[, affixed] or 13 displayed in such manner as he or she may [prescribe by] clarify through 14 regulation. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after its shall 16 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11246-02-9