The New York City Council - File #: Int 0925-2018

• File #: Int 0925-2018
• Version: A
• Name: For-hire vehicles and commuter vans with a seating capacity greater than 20.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Laid Over in Committee
• File created: 5/9/2018
• In control: Committee on For-Hire Vehicles
• On agenda: 5/9/2018
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to for-hire vehicles and commuter vans with a seating capacity greater than 20
• Sponsors: Jumaane D. Williams, I. Daneek Miller, Margaret S. Chin, Kalman Yeger , Alicka Ampry-Samuel

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/25/2018	*	Committee on For-Hire Vehicles	Hearing Held by Committee
6/25/2018	*	Committee on For-Hire Vehicles	Laid Over by Committee
5/9/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
5/9/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Proposed Int. No. 925-A

By Council Members Williams, Miller, Chin, Yeger and Ampry-Samuel

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to for-hire vehicles and commuter vans with a seating capacity greater than 20
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:


Section 1. Subdivision g of section 19-502 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 70 for the year 2001, is amended to read as follows:
g. "For-hire vehicle" means a motor vehicle carrying passengers for hire in the city, with a seating capacity of twenty passengers or less, not including the driver, other than a taxicab, coach, wheelchair accessible van, commuter van or an authorized bus operating pursuant to applicable provisions of law. For the purpose of this subdivision, "seating capacity" shall include any plain view location which is capable of accommodating a normal adult [is] as part of an overall seat configuration and design and is likely to be used as a seating position while the vehicle is in motion. For purposes of the provisions of this chapter relating to prohibitions against the operation of an unauthorized for-hire vehicle and to the enforcement of such prohibitions and to the imposition of penalties for violations of such prohibitions and to the seizure and forfeiture of for-hire vehicles, the term shall also include any common carrier of passengers by motor vehicle not subject to licensure as a taxicab, commuter van, or wheelchair accessible van and not operating as an authorized bus line pursuant to applicable provisions of law regardless of the seating capacity of any such vehicle.
? 2. Subdivision p of section 19-502 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 115 for the year 1993, is amended to read as follows:
p. "Commuter van" means a commuter van service having a seating capacity of at least nine passengers but not mo...