STATE OF NEW YORK
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5093--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 3, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation -- recom-
mitted to the Committee on Transportation in accordance with Senate
Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the transportation law, in relation to requiring safety
reports to potential customers of contract carriers of passengers by
motor vehicle
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 140 of the transportation law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
3 10. No contract carrier of passengers by motor vehicle, as defined by
4 subdivision nine of section two of this chapter, shall enter into a
5 contract to provide services for any customer without first providing
6 that customer with:
7 a. a copy, in writing, of the contract carrier's three most recent
8 federal Safety Measurement System (SMS) scores; provided that, if the
9 contract carrier is required to provide scores for any year or years
10 prior to two thousand twelve, the contract carrier may provide the score
11 or scores calculated by the Safety Status Measurement System (SafeStat)
12 for that year or years; and
13 b. an explanation of how the scores were calculated and what the score
14 means.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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