Bill Text: NY S03538 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the regulation of taxicabs, limousines, livery and transportation network company vehicles in certain municipalities.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Vetoed) 2016-11-28 - VETOED MEMO.269 [S03538 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03538-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3538--B
            Cal. No. 1291
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 12, 2015
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        Introduced by Sens. MARCHIONE, PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government
          -- recommitted to the Committee on Local Government in accordance with
          Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted to said committee -- reported
          favorably from said committee, ordered to  first  and  second  report,
          amended  on  second  report,  ordered  to  a  third reading, and to be
          reprinted as amended, retaining its place in the order of third  read-
          ing
        AN  ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to ordinances to
          regulate  taxicabs,  limousines,  livery  and  transportation  network
          company vehicles
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The section heading and subdivision 1 of section 181 of the
     2  general municipal law, the section heading as amended by chapter 579  of
     3  the laws of 1993, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 498 of the laws of
     4  2015, are amended to read as follows:
     5    Ordinances  to  regulate taxicabs [and], limousines, livery and trans-
     6  portation network company vehicles.
     7    1. The registration and licensing of taxicabs, limousines, livery  and
     8  transportation  network  company  vehicles  and  may limit the number of
     9  taxicabs to be licensed and the county of Westchester  may  adopt  ordi-
    10  nances  regulating the registration and licensing of taxicabs and limou-
    11  sines and may limit the number to be licensed; the county of Nassau  may
    12  adopt ordinances regulating the registration of taxicabs and limousines;
    13  and  the county of Suffolk may adopt local laws or ordinances regulating
    14  the registration of taxicabs, limousines, and livery vehicles;  and  the
    15  county  of  Rockland  may  adopt local laws or ordinances regulating the
    16  registration and licensing of taxicabs, limousines, and livery  vehicles
    17  and may limit the number to be licensed.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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