Directs the commissioner of transportation of the city of New York to develop a program on dangers of prostitution 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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1307
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 9, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. PERALTA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed 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 19-544 to read as follows:
3 § 19-544 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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