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                                  6781--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 9, 2023
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 Introduced  by Sens. PARKER, BAILEY, CLEARE, COMRIE, FERNANDEZ, JACKSON,
   LANZA, MYRIE, PALUMBO, PERSAUD, RAMOS, RHOADS, SANDERS --  read  twice
   and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
   on  Cities 1 -- recommitted to the Committee on Cities 1 in accordance
   with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  administrative code of the city of New York, in
   relation to allowing commuter vans to accept  hails  from  prospective
   passengers in the street; and to repeal certain provisions of such law
   relating thereto
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision p of section 19-502 of the administrative  code
 of  the  city of New York, as amended by local law number 37 of the city
 of New York for the year 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   p. "Commuter van" means a commuter van service having a seating capac-
 ity of at least nine passengers but not more than  [twenty]  TWENTY-FOUR
 passengers  or  such greater capacity as the commission may establish by
 rule and carrying passengers for hire in the city  duly  licensed  as  a
 commuter  van  by the commission [and not permitted to accept hails from
 prospective passengers in the street]. For purposes of the provisions of
 this chapter relating to prohibitions against the operation of an  unau-
 thorized  commuter  van  service  or  an  unlicensed  commuter  van, the
 enforcement of such prohibitions and the  imposition  of  penalties  for
 violations  of  such  prohibitions  and to the seizure and forfeiture of
 commuter vans, the term shall also include any common carrier of passen-
 gers by motor vehicle not subject to licensure as  a  taxicab,  for-hire
 vehicle,  or  wheelchair accessible van and not operating as a public or
 private bus transit service operated pursuant to  a  contract  with  the
 city,  any county within the state of New York, the state of New York or
 any other state or local government that follows the applicable procure-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 ment rules and regulations of such jurisdiction regardless of the  seat-
 ing  capacity  of  any  such vehicle. The commission shall submit to the
 council the text of any proposed rule relating to the  maximum  capacity
 of commuter vans at the time such proposed rule is published in the City
 Record.
   § 2. Paragraph 1 of subdivision a of section 19-504 of the administra-
 tive code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 115 of
 the city of New York for the year 1993, is amended to read as follows:
   (1)  A  taxi-cab,  coach,  wheelchair  accessible van, commuter van or
 for-hire vehicle shall operate within the city of New York only  if  the
 owner  shall  first  have obtained from the commission a taxicab, coach,
 wheelchair accessible van, commuter van or for-hire vehicle license  for
 such  vehicle  and  only while such license is in full force and effect.
 Vehicle licenses shall be issued for a term of not  less  than  one  nor
 more  than  two  years  and  shall  expire  on the date set forth on the
 license unless sooner suspended or revoked by the commission.  No  motor
 vehicle  other  than  a  duly  licensed taxicab OR COMMUTER VAN shall be
 permitted to accept hails from passengers in the street. No commuter van
 shall be operated within the city of New York unless it is  operated  as
 part of a current, valid authorization to operate a commuter van service
 duly issued by the commission pursuant to section 19-504.2 of this chap-
 ter.
   §  3. The section heading of section 19-516 of the administrative code
 of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 115 of the  city
 of New York for the year 1993, is amended to read as follows:
   Acceptance of passengers by for-hire vehicles [and commuter vans].
   § 4. Subdivision b of section 19-516 of the administrative code of the
 city of New York is REPEALED and a new subdivision b is added to read as
 follows:
   B.  COMMUTER  VANS DULY LICENSED BY THE COMMISSION TO CARRY PASSENGERS
 FOR HIRE ARE AUTHORIZED TO ACCEPT HAILS FROM PROSPECTIVE  PASSENGERS  IN
 THE   STREETS   OF   THE  CITY OF NEW YORK,  PROVIDED THAT SUCH AUTHORI-
 ZATION SHALL PROHIBIT THE PICK  UP  OF  PASSENGERS  BY  STREET  HAIL  AT
 AIRPORTS  AND  BY STREET HAIL OR PRE-ARRANGED CALL IN MANHATTAN SOUTH OF
 EAST  NINETY-SIXTH  STREET AND  SOUTH  OF WEST ONE HUNDRED TENTH STREET,
 OR IN SUCH AREA AS THE COMMISSION SHALL BY RULE PROHIBIT.
   § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.