Bill Text: NY S02379 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires certain for-hire vehicles to install and maintain an interior rear-facing video camera.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S02379 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02379-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2379--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 20, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation --  commit-
          tee  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
          mitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
          relation  to  requiring certain for-hire vehicles to install and main-
          tain an interior rear-facing video camera

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. Subdivision c of section 19-508 of the administrative code
     2  of the city of New York is relettered subdivision d and a  new  subdivi-
     3  sion c is added to read as follows:
     4    c.  The  commission  shall  require  for-hire  vehicles with a seating
     5  capacity of six passengers or less that are dispatched by a livery  base
     6  station,  other than high-volume for-hire services, to install and main-
     7  tain an interior rear-facing video camera. This  requirement  shall  not
     8  limit  the  brand  or provider of video cameras which can be utilized to
     9  comply with this paragraph. Provided further that the  installation  and
    10  use  of  a  front-facing  camera  is  permitted  as  long as the minimum
    11  requirements set forth below are met, and so long as the for-hire  vehi-
    12  cle  owner's  motor  vehicle  insurance  provider has access to the data
    13  recorded by such camera unless specifically exempted by law. Such  video
    14  camera  shall  be recording at all times the vehicle is providing trans-
    15  portation for hire, and at minimum shall:
    16    1. capture and record any operator or passenger who  enters  or  exits
    17  the vehicle;
    18    2. store, at a minimum, the sixty most recent hours of operation; and
    19    3.  have  the  ability to transmit data or otherwise provide access to
    20  local law enforcement and the commission.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    22  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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