Bill Text: NY S07331 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to clean air taxicabs; provides for the issuance of one thousand three hundred fifty clean air taxicab medallions; repeals certain provisions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2018-11-05 - SIGNED CHAP.339 [S07331 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S07331-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7331
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 5, 2018
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
          relation  to  clean  air taxicabs; and to repeal certain provisions of
          the administrative code of the city of New York relating thereto
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivisions dd and ee of section 19-502 of the administra-
     2  tive  code of the city of New York, as added by a chapter of the laws of
     3  2017 amending the administrative code of the city of New  York  relating
     4  to clean air taxicabs as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 6326-A
     5  and A. 7963-A, are REPEALED.
     6    §  2.  Section  19-533  of  the administrative code of the city of New
     7  York, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2017 amending the administra-
     8  tive code of the city of New York relating  to  clean  air  taxicabs  as
     9  proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers  S.  6326-A  and A. 7963-A, is
    10  amended to read as follows:
    11    § 19-533 Clean air taxis.   [The commission shall  permit  all  hybrid
    12  electric  and  electric  models of vehicles to be used as a taxicab that
    13  also meet all requirements for use as  a  for-hire  vehicle.  Such]  The
    14  commission  shall approve one or more hybrid electric vehicle models for
    15  use as a taxicab within ninety days after the enactment of this law. The
    16  approved vehicle model or models shall be eligible for immediate use  by
    17  all  current and future medallion owners. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
    18  the commission, to the extent practicable, shall within ninety  days  of
    19  the  effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thousand seventeen
    20  that amended this section, permit one thousand three  hundred  fifty  of
    21  such medallions to use any hybrid electric vehicle, excluding accessible
    22  vehicles  as  defined by section 19-534 of this chapter, that also meets
    23  all of the requirements for use as a for-hire vehicle. For the  purposes
    24  of this chapter, a hybrid electric vehicle shall be defined as a commer-
    25  cially  available  mass  production  vehicle  originally equipped by the
    26  manufacturer with a combustion engine system together with  an  electric
    27  propulsion system that operates in an integrated manner.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    §  3.  Nothing  within this act shall limit or impair the authority of
     2  the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission to approve one  or  more
     3  hybrid electric vehicle models for use as a taxicab.
     4    §  4.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
     5  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2017 amending the administrative code
     6  of the city of New York relating to clean air taxicabs  as  proposed  in
     7  legislative bills numbers S. 6326-A and A. 7963-A, takes effect.