The New York City Council - File #: Int 0890-2018

• File #: Int 0890-2018
• Version: B
• Name: Establishing minimum payments to for-hire vehicle drivers and authorizing the establishment of minimum rates of fare.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 5/9/2018
• In control: Committee on For-Hire Vehicles
• On agenda: 5/9/2018
• Final action: 8/14/2018
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing minimum payments to for-hire vehicle drivers and authorizing the establishment of minimum rates of fare
• Sponsors: Brad S. Lander, Costa G. Constantinides, Carlina Rivera , Keith Powers , Margaret S. Chin, Diana Ayala , Stephen T. Levin, Helen K. Rosenthal
• Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
8/14/2018	B	City Council	Recved from Mayor by Council
8/14/2018	B	Mayor	Signed Into Law by Mayor
8/14/2018	B	Mayor	Hearing Held by Mayor
8/8/2018	B	City Council	Sent to Mayor by Council
8/8/2018	B	City Council	Approved by Council	Pass
8/8/2018	*	Committee on For-Hire Vehicles	Hearing Held by Committee
8/8/2018	*	Committee on For-Hire Vehicles	Amendment Proposed by Comm
8/8/2018	*	Committee on For-Hire Vehicles	Amended by Committee
8/8/2018	B	Committee on For-Hire Vehicles	Approved by Committee	Pass
5/9/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
5/9/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council
4/30/2018	*	Committee on For-Hire Vehicles	Hearing on P-C Item by Comm
4/30/2018	*	Committee on For-Hire Vehicles	P-C Item Laid Over by Comm

Int. No. 890-B

By Council Members Lander, Constantinides, Rivera, Powers, Chin, Ayala, Levin and Rosenthal

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing minimum payments to for-hire vehicle drivers and authorizing the establishment of minimum rates of fare
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:


Section 1. Chapter 5 of title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 19-549 to read as follows:
? 19-549 Minimum payments to for-hire vehicle drivers and minimum fares. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the term "trip" means a transportation service that involves picking up a passenger at a location, and taking and depositing such passenger at a different location requested by such passenger.
b. The commission shall by rule establish a method for determining the minimum payment that must be made to a for-hire vehicle driver for a trip dispatched by a high-volume for-hire service to such driver. In establishing such method, the commission shall, at a minimum, consider the duration and distance of the trip, the expenses of operation to the driver, any applicable vehicle utilization standard, rates of fare and the adequacy of for-hire vehicle driver income considered in relation to for-hire vehicle driver expenses. Such rule promulgated by the commission shall not prevent payments to for-hire vehicle drivers from being calculated on an hourly or weekly basis, or by any other method, provided that the actual payments made to such drivers are no less than the minimum payments determined in accordance with the method established by the commission.
c. The commission shall study payments to for-hire vehicle drivers dispatched by bases other than through high-volume for-hire services for trips dispatched by such bases and may by rule establish a method for determining the minimum payment that must be made to a for-...