Bill Text: NY A10734 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the minimum required amount of the indemnity bond or insurance policy required by certain common carrier ambulettes, paratransit vehicles, and commuter vans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-08 - referred to transportation [A10734 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10734-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10734

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 8, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Jean-Pierre)
          -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation

        AN  ACT  to  amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to indemnity
          bonds or insurance policies for common carrier ambulettes, paratransit
          vehicles, and commuter vans

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  The  second  undesignated  paragraph  of subdivision 1 of
     2  section 370 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 408 of
     3  the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     4    For damages for and incident to death or injuries to persons and inju-
     5  ry to or destruction of property: For each motorcycle and for each motor
     6  vehicle engaged in the business of carrying or  transporting  passengers
     7  for hire, having a seating capacity of not more than seven passengers, a
     8  bond  or  insurance policy with a minimum liability of twenty-five thou-
     9  sand dollars and a maximum liability of fifty thousand dollars for bodi-
    10  ly injury, and a minimum liability of fifty thousand dollars and a maxi-
    11  mum liability of one hundred thousand dollars for death  and  a  minimum
    12  liability  of ten thousand dollars for injury to or destruction of prop-
    13  erty; for each motor vehicle engaged in  the  business  of  carrying  or
    14  transporting  passengers for hire, having a seating capacity of not less
    15  than eight passengers, a bond or insurance policy with a combined single
    16  limit of at least one million five hundred thousand dollars  for  bodily
    17  injury  or  death  to  one  or more persons, and because of injury to or
    18  destruction of property in any one accident; provided, further that  for
    19  common carrier ambulettes, paratransit vehicles, and commuter vans oper-
    20  ating  pursuant  to  operating  authority  issued by the commissioner of
    21  transportation that are engaged in the business of  carrying  or  trans-
    22  porting  passengers for hire, having a seating capacity of not less than
    23  eight passengers, a bond or insurance  policy  with  a  combined  single
    24  limit  of  at  least three hundred thousand dollars for bodily injury or
    25  death to one or more persons, and because of injury to or destruction of
    26  property in any one accident. For the purposes of  this  paragraph,  the
    27  term  "commuter van" shall have the same meaning as such term is defined

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16282-02-0

        A. 10734                            2

     1  in section 19-502 of the administrative code of the city of New York and
     2  the term "passenger" shall mean any occupant of a vehicle other than the
     3  driver of the vehicle.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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