Bill Text: NY A07480 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the county of Ulster to regulate the registration and licensing of taxicabs, limousines, and livery vehicles.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2016-08-31 - signed chap.289 [A07480 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A07480-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7480--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 13, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SKARTADOS  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Local Governments --  recommitted  to  the  Committee  on
          Local  Governments  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 general municipal law and the vehicle and traffic
          law, in relation to authorizing the county of Ulster to  regulate  the
          registration  and  licensing of taxicabs, limousines, and livery vehi-
          cles
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 181 of the general municipal law,
     2  as amended by chapter 498 of the laws of 2015, is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1. The registration and licensing of taxicabs and may limit the number
     5  of taxicabs to be licensed and the county of Westchester may adopt ordi-
     6  nances  regulating the registration and licensing of taxicabs and limou-
     7  sines and may limit the number to be licensed; the county of Nassau  may
     8  adopt ordinances regulating the registration of taxicabs and limousines;
     9  and  the county of Suffolk may adopt local laws or ordinances regulating
    10  the registration of taxicabs, limousines, and livery vehicles; [and] the
    11  county of Rockland may adopt local laws  or  ordinances  regulating  the
    12  registration  and licensing of taxicabs, limousines, and livery vehicles
    13  and may limit the number to be licensed; and the county  of  Ulster  may
    14  adopt local laws or ordinances regulating the registration and licensing
    15  of taxicabs, limousines, and livery vehicles.
    16    §  2.  Paragraph  b of subdivision 1 of section 498 of the vehicle and
    17  traffic law, as separately amended by chapters 382 and 385 of  the  laws
    18  of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
    19    b. "Licensing jurisdiction" shall mean a city with a population of one
    20  million  or  more,  or a county within New York state contiguous to such
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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