File #: Int 0020-2024    Version: * Name: Third-party delivery workers and powered bicycle safety.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
On agenda: 2/8/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to third-party delivery workers and powered bicycle safety
Sponsors: Gale A. Brewer, Carlina Rivera , Farah N. Louis, Lincoln Restler, Lynn C. Schulman, Sandra Ung
Council Member Sponsors: 6
Summary: This bill would require the delivery worker bicycle safety course developed by the Department of Transportation (DOT) to cover the safe and lawful operation of powered bicycles, as well as lithium-ion battery and charging safety. In addition, it would require third-party delivery companies to provide their delivery workers with bicycle safety equipment, including protective headgear, a lamp, a bell or other signaling device, brakes, and reflective material. It would also require third-party delivery companies to ensure that their delivery workers complete the bicycle safety course developed by DOT.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 20, 2. Int. No. 20, 3. Hearing Testimony 10/23/23, 4. Committee Report 1/31/24, 5. Hearing Testimony 1/31/24, 6. Hearing Transcript 1/31/24, 7. February 8, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 8. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 2-8-24

Preconsidered Int. No. 20

 

By Council Members Brewer, Rivera, Louis, Restler, Schulman and Ung

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to third-party delivery workers and powered bicycle safety

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Paragraph (3) of subdivision e of section 10-157 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 91 for the year 2017, is amended to read as follows:

(3) Each bicycle operator shall complete a bicycle safety course prior to making deliveries or otherwise operating a bicycle on behalf of a business using a bicycle for commercial purposes. For purposes of this section, "bicycle safety course" shall mean information provided by the department of transportation regarding safe bicycling, [and] adherence to traffic and commercial bicycle laws, safe and lawful operation of powered bicycles within the meaning of section 20-609, and lithium-ion battery and charging safety.

§ 2. Subdivision b of section 20-563.2 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:

4. Unless it has already done so pursuant to section 10-157, a third-party food delivery service shall comply with the requirements of subdivisions e and f of section 10-157 applicable to a business using a bicycle for commercial purposes and shall ensure that each person it hires, retains, or engages as a bicycle operator within the meaning of section 10-157 complies with subdivision e of such section.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.

 

CCM

LS #13379

1/23/2024