Assembly Bill A8474A

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to stretch limousine safety requirements and changes the class of license required to operate such limousine

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  • 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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co-Sponsors

2019-A8474 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6192
Law Section:
Transportation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§151, 501 & 501-a, Transp L

2019-A8474 - Summary

Relates to stretch limousine safety requirements and changes the class of license required to operate stretch limousines; stretch limousines are vehicles that have a seating capacity of nine or more.

2019-A8474 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8474
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 8, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Transportation
 
 AN ACT to amend the transportation law and the vehicle and traffic  law,
   in  relation  to  excluding  commercial  motor vehicles with a seating
   capacity of nine or more persons from the definition of the term sedan
   and changing the class of license required to operate  stretch  limou-
   sines
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The closing paragraph of section 151 of the  transportation
 law,  as  amended  by  section  8 of part G of chapter 58 of the laws of
 2012, is amended to read as follows:
   For the purposes of this article, the term "sedan" or "sedans" as used
 herein shall  include  private  passenger  automobiles,  but  shall  not
 include  commercial  motor  vehicles with a seating capacity of [eleven]
 NINE persons or more including the driver.
   § 2. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (b) of subdivision  2  of  section
 501 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by section 4 of part E of
 chapter 58 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   (iv)  P  endorsement. Shall be required to operate a bus as defined in
 sections one hundred four and five hundred nine-a of  this  chapter,  AN
 ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLE COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS A STRETCH LIMOUSINE HAVING
 A  SEATING  CAPACITY OF NINE OR MORE PASSENGERS INCLUDING THE DRIVER, or
 any motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight or  gross  vehicle  weight
 rating  of  more  than  twenty-six  thousand pounds which is designed to
 transport passengers in commerce. For the purposes of this  subparagraph
 the  gross  vehicle  weight of a vehicle shall mean the actual weight of
 the vehicle and the load.
   § 3. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (a) of subdivision  4  of  section
 501-a  of  the  vehicle  and traffic law, as added by chapter 173 of the
 laws of 1990, is amended to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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2019-A8474A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6192
Law Section:
Transportation Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§151, 501 & 501-a, Transp L

2019-A8474A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to stretch limousine safety requirements and changes the class of license required to operate stretch limousines; stretch limousines are vehicles that have a seating capacity of nine or more.

2019-A8474A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8474--A
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 8, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SANTABARBARA, TAGUE -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Transportation -- recommitted  to  the  Committee  on
   Transportation in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee

 AN  ACT to amend the transportation law and the vehicle and traffic law,
   in relation to stretch limousine safety requirements and changing  the
   class of license required to operate stretch limousines
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 11 and 12 of section 151 of the transportation
 law, subdivision 11 as amended and subdivision 12 as  added  by  chapter
 330 of the laws of 2005, are amended to read as follows:
   11.  As  a  taxi or livery service, except for transportation services
 that are designed  for  the  transportation  of  transportation-disabled
 persons,  conducted  in  vehicles having a seating capacity of less than
 fifteen passengers pursuant to the jurisdiction or regulatory control of
 a municipality, other than a city with a population  over  one  million,
 authorized  to  adopt  an  ordinance  relating  to both registration and
 licensing pursuant to subdivision one of section one hundred  eighty-one
 of  the  general  municipal law, when service is conducted wholly within
 such municipality and when such service  is  available  to  the  general
 public on a prearranged or demand-response basis over a non-specified or
 irregular route with the point or points of pick-up and discharge deter-
 mined  by  the  passenger,  but  such  taxi  or livery service shall not
 include van service. For the  purpose  of  this  subdivision,  the  term
 "livery service" shall include the term "limousines" as used in subdivi-
 sion one of section one hundred eighty-one of the general municipal law.
 PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  THAT ALTERED MOTOR VEHICLES COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS
 "STRETCH LIMOUSINES" HAVING A SEATING CAPACITY OF NINE OR  MORE  PASSEN-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11417-08-9
              

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