The New York City Council - File #: Int 0727-2018

• File #: Int 0727-2018
• Version: A
• Name: Strengthening the licensing requirements in the sight-seeing bus industry.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Enacted (Mayor's Desk for Signature)
• File created: 3/22/2018
• In control: Committee on Consumer Affairs and Business Licensing
• On agenda: 3/22/2018
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to strengthening the licensing requirements in the sight-seeing bus industry
• Sponsors: Rafael L. Espinal, Jr., Carlos Menchaca, Karen Koslowitz, Margaret S. Chin, Kalman Yeger , Stephen T. Levin
• Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
9/26/2018	A	City Council	Approved by Council	Pass
9/26/2018	*	Committee on Consumer Affairs and Business Licensing	Hearing Held by Committee
9/26/2018	*	Committee on Consumer Affairs and Business Licensing	Amendment Proposed by Comm
9/26/2018	*	Committee on Consumer Affairs and Business Licensing	Amended by Committee
9/26/2018	A	Committee on Consumer Affairs and Business Licensing	Approved by Committee	Pass
4/24/2018	*	Committee on Consumer Affairs and Business Licensing	Hearing Held by Committee
4/24/2018	*	Committee on Consumer Affairs and Business Licensing	Laid Over by Committee
3/22/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
3/22/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 727-A

By Council Members Espinal, Menchaca, Koslowitz, Chin, Yeger and Levin

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to strengthening the licensing requirements in the sight-seeing bus industry
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Section 20-372 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
11. "Sight-seeing bus driver" shall mean any natural person who operates a sight-seeing bus in the city of New York.
? 2. Subdivision a of section 20-376 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended to read as follows:
A vehicle shall be licensed as a sight-seeing bus only after it shall have been examined and inspected to determine that it complies with this section, and that it also (1) complies with all the requirements of the vehicle and traffic law of the state of New York, and (2) is certified by the department of transportation of the state, as being safe and properly equipped to operate, or if the department of transportation of the state determines an inspection by that department is not required, is certified by the department of motor vehicles of the state.
? 3. Subchapter 21 of chapter 2 of title 20 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 20-376.2 to read as follows:
? 20-376.2 Sight-seeing bus drivers. a. It shall be unlawful for an owner of a sight-seeing bus company to employ any person as a sight-seeing bus driver unless that person:
1. Possesses a valid commercial driver's license for the operation of such bus and is not disqualified from driving a commercial motor vehicle pursuant to federal law;
2. Has not had their commercial driver's license suspended or revoked two or more times within the past five years;
3. Has not accumulated nine or more points on their driving record for acts that occurred within an eighteen month...