STATE OF NEW YORK
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7697
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 16, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to clarifying
regulations requiring transportation network company cars to be
distinguishable
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 1696 of the vehicle and traffic
2 law, as added by section 2 of part AAA of chapter 59 of the laws of
3 2017, is amended to read as follows:
4 5. The department shall promulgate regulations to ensure that each TNC
5 vehicle is easily identified as such and that the TNC for which the TNC
6 driver is providing the TNC service or TNC prearranged trip is distin-
7 guishable. For the purposes of this section, distinguishable shall be
8 satisfied by affixing an illuminated fixture, subject to the provisions
9 of subdivision forty-one of section three hundred seventy-five of this
10 chapter, to the TNC driver's rooftop displaying the insignia, name, or
11 title of the TNC. Such marking shall be [in such] subject to the form as
12 is approved by the commissioner, and shall be attached[, affixed] or
13 displayed in such manner as he or she may [prescribe by] clarify through
14 regulation.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after its shall
16 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11246-02-9
