File #: Int 0747-2000    Version: * Name: Vehicles for-hire, Licensing
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 5/10/2000
Enactment date: 12/26/2001 Law number: 2001/070
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the licensing of for-hire vehicles.
Sponsors: Noach Dear, Philip Reed, Alphonse Stabile, (by request of the Mayor)
Council Member Sponsors: 4
Attachments: 1. Committee Report, 2. Fiscal Impact Statement, 3. Hearing Transcript, 4. Local Law
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/28/2001*Noach Dear City Council Recved from Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/26/2001*Noach Dear Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/26/2001*Noach Dear Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/11/2001*Noach Dear City Council Sent to Mayor by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/11/2001*Noach Dear City Council Approved by CouncilPass Action details Meeting details Not available
12/10/2001*Noach Dear Committee on Transportation Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
12/10/2001*Noach Dear Committee on Transportation Approved by CommitteePass Action details Meeting details Not available
5/10/2000*Noach Dear Legislative Documents Unit Printed Item Laid on Desk  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/10/2000*Noach Dear City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/10/2000*Noach Dear City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 747
 
By Council Members Dear, Reed and Stabile (by request of the Mayor)
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the licensing of for-hire vehicles.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
      Section 1. Subdivision g of section 19-502 of the administrative code of the city of New York as added by local law number 76 for the year 1986, is amended to read as follows:
      g. "For-hire vehicle" means a motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire in the city, [designed to carry fewer than nine] with a seating capacity of twenty passengers or less, not including the driver, other than a taxicab, coach [or], wheelchair accessible van, commuter van or an authorized bus operating pursuant to applicable provisions of law.  For the purpose of this subdivision, "seating capacity" shall include any plain view location which is capable of accomodating a normal adult, is part of an overall seat configuration and design and is likely to be used as a seating position while the vehicle is in motion.
      ยง4.      This local law shall take effect immediately.
Intro. No. 747
Request of the Mayor
5/11/00