Prohibits local taxi and limousine commissions from allowing any base or other entity to dispatch to a livery without that base or other entity first becoming a member of the independent livery driver benefit fund.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 11, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. GIBBS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Labor
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the independent livery
driver benefit fund
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 160-aaa of the executive law, as
2 added by chapter 392 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
3 3. "Covered services" means all dispatches from a livery base to a
4 livery regardless of where the pick-up or discharge occurs.
5 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 160-fff of the executive law, as added
6 by chapter 392 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
7 1. The membership of the fund shall be comprised of all independent
8 livery bases. No local taxi and limousine commission shall allow any
9 base or other entity to dispatch to a livery without that base or other
10 entity first becoming a member of the fund. If the workers' compensation
11 board or local taxi and limousine commission revokes a livery base's
12 authorization to act as an independent livery base, it shall cease to be
13 a member of the fund within thirty days. Such revocation shall not enti-
14 tle the livery base to the return of any moneys deposited into the fund.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01936-01-3
