Bill Text: NY A09059 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that every motor carrier shall furnish the department of motor vehicles a list of each altered motor vehicle commonly referred to as a "stretch limousine" designed to carry 9 or more passengers; requires the commissioner of motor vehicles to annually review the bus driver files of each driver employed by a motor vehicle carrier who operates such stretch limousine; makes related provisions.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 23-2)
Status: (Passed) 2020-02-03 - signed chap.12 [A09059 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A09059-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9059 IN ASSEMBLY January 10, 2020 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law and the transportation law, in relation to motor carriers of stretch limousines The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 509-d of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 5-a to read as follows: 3 (5-a) Every motor carrier shall furnish the department, beginning no 4 later than July first, two thousand twenty-one and annually thereafter, 5 a list of each altered motor vehicle commonly referred to as a "stretch 6 limousine", if any, designed to carry nine or more passengers including 7 the driver that such motor carrier operates pursuant to operating 8 authority issued by the commissioner of transportation, including the 9 vehicle identification number and registration number of each such 10 altered motor vehicle, and a list of all drivers such motor carrier 11 employs who drive such altered motor vehicles and whether such driver is 12 qualified or has been disqualified to operate such altered motor vehicle 13 pursuant to this article. 14 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 509-m of the vehicle and traffic law, as 15 added by chapter 675 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows: 16 1. At least once every three years, review the bus driver files of 17 each motor carrier, provided, however, that the commissioner may review 18 such bus driver files at his discretion at any other time during regular 19 business hours. Provided, however, that the commissioner shall review 20 at least annually the bus driver files of each driver employed by a 21 motor carrier who operates an altered motor vehicle commonly referred to 22 as a "stretch limousine" designed to carry nine or more passengers 23 including the driver pursuant to operating authority issued by the 24 commissioner of transportation, and annually verify whether each such 25 driver holds a valid driver's license valid for the operation of such 26 altered motor vehicle. 27 § 3. Section 509-m of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding 28 a new subdivision 8 to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14784-01-0A. 9059 2 1 8. Maintain and annually update its website to provide information 2 with regard to each motor carrier that operates altered motor vehicles 3 commonly referred to as "stretch limousines" designed to carry nine or 4 more passengers including the driver pursuant to operating authority 5 issued by the commissioner of transportation that includes the motor 6 carrier's name, location and region of operation including place of 7 address, whether such motor carrier is in compliance with this article 8 as required by section five hundred nine-j of this article in relation 9 to the operation of such altered motor vehicles, the number and nature 10 of violations of this article resulting in convictions of such motor 11 carrier in relation to the operation of such altered motor vehicles, the 12 number of miles traveled by such altered motor vehicles operated by such 13 motor carrier in the preceding twelve months, and, with respect to driv- 14 ers employed by such motor carrier operating such altered motor vehi- 15 cles, the total number so employed, the number holding valid licenses 16 which are valid for the operation of such altered motor vehicles, the 17 number which lack licenses valid for such operation, the number disqual- 18 ified from operating such altered motor vehicles, the number of 19 convictions and accidents involving any such driver employed by such 20 motor carrier during the preceding twelve months, and the number of 21 convictions and accidents per ten thousand miles traveled. 22 § 4. Subdivision 9 of section 138 of the transportation law, as added 23 by section 16 of part III of chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, is amended 24 to read as follows: 25 9. To maintain and annually update its website to provide information 26 with regard to each bus operator or motor carrier under subparagraphs 27 (ii) and (vi) of paragraph a of subdivision two of section one hundred 28 forty of this [chapter] article requiring department operating authority 29 that includes the bus operator's or motor carrier's name, number of 30 inspections, number of out of service orders, operator identification 31 number, location and region of operation including place of address, 32 percentile to which [a] an operator or motor carrier falls with respect 33 to out of service defects, the number or percentage of out of service 34 defects where pursuant to the commissioner's regulations no inspection 35 certificate shall be issued until the defect is repaired and a re-in- 36 spection is conducted, and the number of serious physical injury or 37 fatal crashes involving a for-hire vehicle requiring operating authority 38 pursuant to this article. 39 § 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 40 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 41 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 42 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 43 completed on or before such effective date.
