Bill Text: NY S08876 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8876

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of transportation to increase the number of licenses for tow truck operators in a city with a population of one million or more by thirty percent by December 31, 2024.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-22 - REFERRED TO CITIES 1 [S08876 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08876-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8876

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 22, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Cities 1

        AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the  city  of  New  York,  in
          relation to increasing the number of licenses for tow truck operators

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

     1    Section 1. Section 20-520 of the administrative code of  the  city  of
     2  New  York, as amended by local law number 58 of the city of New York for
     3  the year 1996, is amended to read as follows:
     4    § 20-520 Removal of disabled vehicles on highways. a.  Notwithstanding
     5  any  other  provision of this subchapter, where the authorization of the
     6  commissioner of transportation or the police commissioner is required to
     7  remove a disabled vehicle from any of the highways,  parkways,  express-
     8  ways,  drives,  interstate routes, thruways and bridges set forth in the
     9  traffic regulations of the department of transporation, it  shall  be  a
    10  violation  of  this section to effect such removal without such authori-
    11  zation.
    12    b. By December thirty-first, two thousand twenty-four, the commission-
    13  er of transportation shall increase the number of  licenses  granted  to
    14  tow truck operators by thirty percent.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13959-02-4