Bill Text: NY A02579 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that the owner of a hazard vehicle service or of a taxicab, livery, bus, coach, limousine, van or wheelchair accessible van service, who has permitted an employee to operate such a vehicle when such employee has not been issued a valid state driver's license or whose license has been suspended or revoked shall have his business license suspended for thirty days.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to transportation [A02579 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A02579-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2579
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 20, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. COOK, PRETLOW -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          HYNDMAN, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transpor-
          tation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the  suspen-
          sion of licenses
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 510 of the vehicle and traffic law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph e to read as follows:
     3    e. Suspension of license.  The owner of a hazard vehicle  service,  as
     4  defined in section one hundred seventeen-a of this chapter, or a service
     5  involving operation for hire of any vehicle as a taxicab, livery or bus,
     6  as  such terms are defined in article one of this chapter, coach, limou-
     7  sine, van or wheelchair accessible van, who has permitted an employee to
     8  operate such vehicle when such employee has  not  been  issued  a  valid
     9  state  driver  license  or  whose  license has been suspended or revoked
    10  pursuant to this section, shall have his business license suspended  for
    11  a period of thirty days by the commissioner or other appropriate licens-
    12  ing authority.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05653-01-7