Directs the commissioner of transportation of the city of New York to develop a program on dangers of prostitution and trafficking and legal consequences thereof, required to be completed by commercial passenger drivers as a condition of licensure and renewal of licensing.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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873
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 11, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. SIMOTAS, COLTON, JAFFEE -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Cities
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to requiring a sex crime safety program for commercial
passenger drivers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended
2 by adding a new section 19-551 to read as follows:
3 § 19-551 Sex crime education program. The commissioner shall develop a
4 program that will educate drivers of taxicabs, coaches, wheelchair
5 accessible vans, commuter vans and for-hire vehicles on the dangers of
6 prostitution and the legal ramifications of trafficking prostitutes.
7 Completion of such program by such drivers shall be a requirement for
8 initial licensure and subsequent license renewal.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect six months after it shall have become
10 a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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