Allows commuter vans to accept hails from prospective passengers in the street; directs the New York city taxi and limousine commission to submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council and publish on its website a report on an evaluation of the impact, if any, of authorizing commuter vans to accept hails from passengers in the street on the safe and efficient operation of commuter van services.
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I N A S S E M B L Y
February 20, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. ANDERSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Cities
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
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 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 passengers or
such greater capacity as the commission may establish by rule and carry-
ing 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 unauthorized commu-
ter 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 passengers by motor vehi-
cle not subject to licensure as a taxicab, for-hire vehicle, or wheel-
chair accessible van and not operating as a public or private bus trans-
it 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 procurement rules and
regulations of such jurisdiction regardless of the seating 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
for the year 1993, is amended to read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14429-01-6
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