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A08496 Summary:

BILL NOA08496
 
SAME ASSAME AS S05825
 
SPONSORHeastie
 
COSPNSRFarrell, Linares, Crespo, Moya, Castro
 
MLTSPNSR
 
 
Provides for a greater amount of taxicabs serving the city of New York that are designed to foster increased access and mobility to persons with disabilities; and establishes a task force on areas of NYC underserved by medallion taxicabs.
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A08496 Actions:

BILL NOA08496
 
06/18/2011referred to cities
06/20/2011reported referred to ways and means
06/20/2011reported referred to rules
06/20/2011reported
06/20/2011rules report cal.561
06/20/2011ordered to third reading rules cal.561
06/21/2011passed assembly
06/21/2011delivered to senate
06/21/2011REFERRED TO RULES
06/24/2011SUBSTITUTED FOR S5825
06/24/20113RD READING CAL.1546
06/24/2011MESSAGE OF NECESSITY
06/24/2011PASSED SENATE
06/24/2011RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
12/09/2011delivered to governor
12/21/2011signed chap.602
12/21/2011approval memo.18
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A08496 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          8496
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      June 18, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. HEASTIE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Cities
 
        AN ACT in relation to livery permits in the city of New York
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Legislative  findings. The legislature finds and declares

     2  that the public health, safety and welfare of the residents of the state
     3  of New York traveling to, from and within the city  of  New  York  is  a
     4  matter  of  substantial state concern, which includes access to safe and
     5  reliable mass transportation such as taxicabs. The majority of residents
     6  and nonresidents of the city of New York do not currently have access to
     7  the necessary amount of legal, licensed taxicabs  available  for  street
     8  hails  when  traveling  within the city.   Improving access to such mass
     9  transportation, including taxicabs, furthers this matter of  substantial
    10  state  concern.  Additionally,  the  legislature finds and declares that
    11  there should be a greater amount of taxicabs serving  the  city  of  New
    12  York  that  are  designed to foster increased access, mobility and inde-
    13  pendence of persons with disabilities. The health, safety and welfare of

    14  these persons with disabilities is placed at risk without  adequate  and
    15  reliable transportation.
    16    §  2. The city of New York may, acting by the mayor alone, administra-
    17  tively authorize the New York city taxi and limousine commission or  its
    18  successor  agency  to  issue  up  to  one  thousand five hundred taxicab
    19  licenses in addition to those already issued,  provided,  however,  that
    20  five  hundred sixty-nine of such taxicab licenses shall be restricted to
    21  vehicles that are accessible to individuals with disabilities,  provided
    22  further that such additional licenses shall be issued by public sale and
    23  shall  be  fully transferable. The commission or successor thereto shall
    24  prescribe by regulation the procedures for the issuance and public  sale
    25  of  such  additional  licenses,  by public auction, sealed bids or other

    26  competitive process. Such additional licenses may be issued on or  after
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13200-01-1

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     1  July 1, 2012.  The authorization provided in this section is conditioned
     2  upon the commission making available for issuance the permits authorized
     3  pursuant to sections three and four of this act and the establishment of
     4  the task force pursuant to section five of this act.
     5    §  3.  The  New  York  city taxi and limousine commission or successor
     6  agency is hereby authorized to issue non-transferable permits to  owners
     7  of  for-hire  vehicles, as defined in subdivision g of section 19-502 of

     8  the administrative code of the city of New York, allowing such  vehicles
     9  to  pick  up passengers by street hail in parts of New York city outside
    10  Manhattan, excluding airports, and in Manhattan north  of  east  ninety-
    11  sixth street and north of west one hundred tenth street ("hail privilege
    12  vehicle  permits"),  provided  that no more than thirty thousand permits
    13  shall be held at one time.  Such geographic limitations may be  extended
    14  by such taxi and limousine commission or successor agency, acting pursu-
    15  ant  to  the  recommendations  of the task force established pursuant to
    16  section five of this act. Such hail privilege vehicle permits  shall  be
    17  issued beginning no later than the public sale of the additional taxicab
    18  medallions  issued pursuant to section two of this act, for a fee in the
    19  amount of one thousand five hundred dollars,  and  shall  be  valid  for

    20  three  years prior to renewal. Such right to renewal shall be automatic,
    21  upon payment of a renewal fee, if the owner is in good standing.    Such
    22  fee  amount  may  be  increased by such taxi and limousine commission or
    23  successor agency to account for changes in the  United  States  consumer
    24  price index, adjusted for inflation. The initial sale of such hail priv-
    25  ilege  vehicle  permits  shall  be limited to current owners of for-hire
    26  vehicles, as defined by subdivision g of section 19-502 of the  adminis-
    27  trative  code  of  the  city  of New York, who have been licensed for at
    28  least three years and are in good standing with the New York  city  taxi
    29  and limousine commission. The city of New York, acting through such taxi
    30  and  limousine  commission,  is  hereby authorized and empowered to take
    31  such actions as are necessary and desirable to implement the  provisions

    32  of  this  section,  subject  only  to the procedures and limitations set
    33  forth in this section, and shall not be required to engage in any review
    34  provided for by any provision of law or make or obtain any determination
    35  not expressly required by this section. Nothing in  this  section  shall
    36  prohibit  an  owner of a for-hire vehicle as defined by subdivision g of
    37  section 19-502 of the administrative code of the city of New  York,  who
    38  possesses a hail privilege vehicle permit pursuant to this section, from
    39  accepting  prearranged calls from a for-hire vehicle base station estab-
    40  lished pursuant to section 19-511 of the administrative code of the city
    41  of New York, provided that such owner is separately licensed to  do  so.
    42  Nothing  in this section shall prohibit such owner from allowing another
    43  driver who meets such taxi and limousine commission's or successor agen-

    44  cy's designated standards to use the vehicle and exercise the privileges
    45  of the hail privilege vehicle permit. Such taxi and limousine commission
    46  or successor agency may by rule govern the equipment  of  such  vehicles
    47  with  meters  and  the rates that may be charged for trips in such vehi-
    48  cles.
    49    § 4. The New York city taxi and limousine commission is hereby author-
    50  ized to issue non-transferable permits to for-hire vehicle base stations
    51  established pursuant to section 19-511 of the administrative code of the
    52  city of New York, allowing such base  stations  to  be  affiliated  with
    53  holders  of  permits issued pursuant to section three of this act ("hail
    54  privilege base permit"), provided that no more than four  hundred  fifty
    55  permits  shall  be  held at one time.   Every holder of a hail privilege
    56  vehicle permit issued pursuant to section three of  this  act  shall  be

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     1  affiliated with one such base station. Hail privilege base permits shall
     2  be  issued  to  base  stations pursuant to this section for a fee in the
     3  amount of three thousand dollars, and shall be  valid  for  three  years
     4  prior to renewal. Such right to renewal shall be automatic, upon payment
     5  of  a  renewal  fee,  if the base station is in good standing.  Such fee
     6  amount may be increased by such taxi and limousine commission or succes-
     7  sor agency to account for changes in the United  States  consumer  price
     8  index,  adjusted  for inflation. The initial sale of such hail privilege
     9  base permits will be limited to existing for-hire vehicle base  stations
    10  established pursuant to section 19-511 of the administrative code of the
    11  city  of New York, that have been in operation for at least three years.

    12  Such hail privilege base permits shall be issued beginning no later than
    13  the public sale of the additional taxicab medallions issued pursuant  to
    14  section  two of this act. The city of New York, acting through such taxi
    15  and limousine commission, is hereby authorized  and  empowered  to  take
    16  such  actions as are necessary and desirable to implement the provisions
    17  of this section, subject only to  the  procedures  and  limitations  set
    18  forth in this section, and shall not be required to engage in any review
    19  provided for by any provision of law or make or obtain any determination
    20  not expressly required by this section.
    21    §  5.  There  is  established  a  task force on areas of New York city
    22  underserved by medallion taxicabs, consisting  of  four  members  to  be
    23  appointed  as  follows: one by the mayor of the city of New York, one by

    24  the temporary president of the senate, one by the speaker of the  assem-
    25  bly and one by the speaker of the New York city council. Such task force
    26  shall  hold  public hearings in each of the five boroughs of the city of
    27  New York. The task force shall prepare and, no  later  than  two  months
    28  after  the  date  this  act  shall take effect, submit to the appointing
    29  authorities of such task force a report and recommendations  identifying
    30  areas of New York city that are underserved by medallion taxicabs, areas
    31  that  are  intensely  served  by  medallion  taxicabs and areas that are
    32  adequately served by medallion taxicabs. Such task force may also  iden-
    33  tify  up  to  five  locations,  including  airports, in each of the five
    34  boroughs of the city of New  York,  where  for-hire  vehicles  shall  be
    35  prohibited from accepting street hail passengers. Such report and recom-

    36  mendations  must be approved by all of the members of the task force and
    37  shall be implemented by rule of such commission, provided, however, that
    38  the failure by the task force to present such report and recommendations
    39  shall in no way prevent the implementation of any provision of this act.
    40    § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.
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