File #: Int 0289-2018    Version: Name: Requiring double decker sight-seeing buses to have one owner representative present on the upper level at all times when passengers are present.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
File created: 1/31/2018 In control: Committee on Consumer Affairs and Business Licensing
On agenda: 1/31/2018 Final action:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring double decker sight-seeing buses to have at least one employee present on the upper level at all times when passengers are present.
Sponsors: Ydanis A. Rodriguez, Justin L. Brannan, Carlos Menchaca, Costa G. Constantinides, Karen Koslowitz, Donovan J. Richards, Diana Ayala , Brad S. Lander, Ben Kallos, Daniel Dromm , Margaret S. Chin, I. Daneek Miller, Helen K. Rosenthal, Robert E. Cornegy, Jr., Deborah L. Rose, Kalman Yeger , Mark Treyger, Antonio Reynoso
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 289-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 289, 3. Int. No. 289, 4. January 31, 2018 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Committee Report 4/24/18, 6. Hearing Testimony 4/24/18, 7. Hearing Transcript 4/24/18, 8. Proposed Int. No. 289-A - 9/27/18

Proposed Int. No. 289-A

 

By Council Members Rodriguez, Brannan, Menchaca, Constantinides, Koslowitz, Richards, Ayala, Lander, Kallos, Dromm, Chin, Miller, Rosenthal, Cornegy, Rose, Yeger, Treyger and Reynoso

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring double decker sight-seeing buses to have at least one employee present on the upper level at all times when passengers are present.

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. 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 Staffing requirement for double decker sight-seeing buses. In addition to its driver, any sight-seeing bus with separate lower- and upper-level seating compartments for passengers shall have at least one employee licensed pursuant to section 20-243 present on the upper level at all times when passengers are on the upper level.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 90 days after it becomes law.

 


 

PLS

LS 10508/Int. 1657-2017

LS 833

3/19/2018