Senate Bill S640

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Creates a black box tax credit

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Transportation Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-S640 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Transportation
Law Section:
Vehicle and Traffic Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 12-D §§399-p - 399-s, V & T L; add §35, amd §§210 & 606, Tax L; amd §2336, Ins L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S7663
2013-2014: S3460

2011-S640 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the livery and taxi safety act; provides for black box credit.

2011-S640 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S640 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   640

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 5, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by Sens. GOLDEN, RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered print-
  ed,  and  when printed to be committed to the Committee on Transporta-
  tion

AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, the tax law and the  insur-
  ance law, in relation to enacting the livery and taxi safety act

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The vehicle and traffic law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
article 12-D to read as follows:
                              ARTICLE 12-D
                       LIVERY AND TAXI SAFETY ACT
SECTION 399-P. SHORT TITLE.
        399-Q. DEFINITION.
        399-R. ELIGIBILITY.
        399-S. COUNCIL ON LIVERY AND TAXI SAFETY.
  S  399-P. SHORT TITLE. THIS ARTICLE MAY BE KNOWN AND SHALL BE CITED AS
THE "LIVERY AND TAXI SAFETY ACT".
  S 399-Q. DEFINITION. FOR THE PURPOSES OF  THIS  ARTICLE  AND  THE  TAX
CREDIT  PROVIDED  FOR  IN  SECTION  THIRTY-FIVE OF THE TAX LAW, THE TERM
"BLACK BOX" SHALL BE DEFINED AS A DEVICE CERTIFIED AS A BLACK BOX BY THE
COMMISSIONER AND WHICH INCLUDES ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING FUNCTIONS:
  1. VIDEO EVENT DATA RECORDER WHICH SHALL BE DEFINED AS A DEVICE  WHICH
RECORDS  AND  PROVIDES  DATA  OF  EVENTS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO A
COLLISION, SPEED OF THE VEHICLE, DIRECTION OF TRAVEL,  LOCATION  OF  THE
EVENT, AND VIDEO FOOTAGE BOTH BEFORE AND AFTER THE EVENT;
  2. REAL-TIME TRACKING USING GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM OR OTHER SIMILAR
TECHNOLOGY; AND
  3. ADVANCED DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS THAT PROVIDE DRIVER NOTIFICATION
OF EVENTS SUCH AS SPEEDING, LANE DEPARTURE, POTENTIAL FOR COLLISION, AND
THE  CAPABILITY TO MONITOR AND PROVIDE WARNING OF DISTANCE BETWEEN VEHI-
CLES AND OTHER POTENTIAL OBSTACLES.
  S 399-R. ELIGIBILITY. ANY TAXPAYER WHO PROVIDES A TAXICAB  SERVICE  AS
DEFINED  IN  SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED  FORTY-EIGHT-A  OF THIS CHAPTER, OR A
              

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