Bill Text: NY S05031 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires transportation network company drivers to display the vehicle's license plate number.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION [S05031 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05031-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5031
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      April 3, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Transportation
        AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to enacting the
          "Samantha L. Josephson ridesharing safety act" to require  transporta-
          tion network company drivers to display the TNC company's trade dress
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as  the  "Samantha
     2  L.  Josephson ridesharing safety act".
     3    §  2. Subdivision 5 of section 1696 of the vehicle and traffic law, as
     4  added by section 2 of part AAA of chapter 59 of the  laws  of  2017,  is
     5  amended to read as follows:
     6    5.  (a)  The  department  shall promulgate regulations consistent with
     7  this subdivision to ensure that each TNC vehicle is easily identified as
     8  such and that the TNC for which the TNC  driver  is  providing  the  TNC
     9  service  or  TNC prearranged trip is distinguishable. Such marking shall
    10  be in such form as  is  approved  by  the  commissioner,  and  shall  be
    11  attached,  affixed  or  displayed  in  such  manner consistent with this
    12  subdivision as he or she may prescribe by regulation.
    13    (b) A TNC vehicle shall display a consistent and distinctive  sign  or
    14  emblem, which shall be known as a trade dress, at all times when the TNC
    15  driver  is  active on the TNC digital platform or providing TNC service.
    16  The trade dress used by the TNC shall  be  approved  by  the  department
    17  before its use and:
    18    (i)  shall  be  readable  during daylight hours at a distance of fifty
    19  feet;
    20    (ii) shall be sufficiently illuminated during  hours  of  darkness  so
    21  that  the  proprietary trademark or logo of the TNC is patently visible;
    22  and
    23    (iii) may be magnetic or removable in nature.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11057-02-9

        S. 5031                             2
     1    (c) No TNC service shall be required to provide its trade  dress  free
     2  of  charge to TNC drivers, but shall make such trade dress available for
     3  purchase by the TNC or from a third party.
     4    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     5  have become a law.
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