The New York City Council - File #: Int 0017-2018

• File #: Int 0017-2018
• Version: *
• Name: Removing the off-street parking requirement for base station licenses.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Committee
• File created: 1/31/2018
• In control: Committee on For-Hire Vehicles
• On agenda: 1/31/2018
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to removing the off-street parking requirement for base station licenses
• Sponsors: Fernando Cabrera

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/31/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
1/31/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 17

By Council Member Cabrera

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to removing the off-street parking requirement for base station licenses
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Section 19-511 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 51 for the year 1996, is amended to read as follows:
? 19-511 Licensing of communications systems and base stations. a. The commission shall require licenses for the operation of two-way radio or other communications systems used for dispatching or conveying information to drivers of licensed vehicles, including for-hire vehicles or wheelchair accessible vans and shall require licenses for base stations, upon such terms as it deems advisable and upon payment of reasonable license fees of not more than five hundred dollars a year. There shall be an additional fee of twenty-five dollars for late filing of a license renewal application where such filing is permitted by the commission.
b. [The operator of a base station shall provide and utilize lawful off-street facilities for the parking and storage of the licensed for-hire vehicles that are to be dispatched from that base station equal to not less than one parking space for every two such vehicles or fraction thereof. The commission shall establish by rule criteria for off-street parking which shall include, but not be limited to, the maximum permissible distance between the base station and such off-street parking facilities and the proximity of such off-street parking facilities and the proximity of such off-street parking facilities to residences and community facilities as defined in the zoning resolution of the city of New York. A license for a new base station shall only be granted where the applicant has demonstrated to the commission prior to the issuance of such license that off-street parking facilities sufficient to satisfy the r...