Bill Text: NY S06604 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


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: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-02-03 - signed chap.12 [S06604 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06604-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         6604--B

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 18, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. SANDERS, BRESLIN, PARKER -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules --
          recommitted to the Committee  on  Transportation  in  accordance  with
          Senate  Rule  6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  committee  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        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

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05406-07-0

        S. 6604--B                          2

     1  motor carrier who operates an altered motor vehicle commonly referred to
     2  as a "stretch limousine" designed  to  carry  nine  or  more  passengers
     3  including  the  driver  pursuant  to  operating  authority issued by the
     4  commissioner  of  transportation,  and annually verify whether each such
     5  driver holds a valid driver's license valid for the  operation  of  such
     6  altered motor vehicle.
     7    § 3. Section 509-m of the vehicle and traffic law is amended by adding
     8  a new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
     9    8.  Maintain  and  annually  update its website to provide information
    10  with regard to each motor carrier that operates altered  motor  vehicles
    11  commonly  referred  to as "stretch limousines" designed to carry nine or
    12  more passengers including the driver  pursuant  to  operating  authority
    13  issued  by  the  commissioner  of transportation that includes the motor
    14  carrier's name, location and region  of  operation  including  place  of
    15  address,  whether  such motor carrier is in compliance with this article
    16  as required by section five hundred nine-j of this article  in  relation
    17  to  the  operation of such altered motor vehicles, the number and nature
    18  of violations of this article resulting in  convictions  of  such  motor
    19  carrier in relation to the operation of such altered motor vehicles, the
    20  number of miles traveled by such altered motor vehicles operated by such
    21  motor carrier in the preceding twelve months, and, with respect to driv-
    22  ers  employed  by  such motor carrier operating such altered motor vehi-
    23  cles, the total number so employed, the number  holding  valid  licenses
    24  which  are  valid  for the operation of such altered motor vehicles, the
    25  number which lack licenses valid for such operation, the number disqual-
    26  ified  from  operating  such  altered  motor  vehicles,  the  number  of
    27  convictions  and  accidents  involving  any such driver employed by such
    28  motor carrier during the preceding twelve  months,  and  the  number  of
    29  convictions and accidents per ten thousand miles traveled.
    30    §  4. Subdivision 9 of section 138 of the transportation law, as added
    31  by section 16 of part III of chapter 59 of the laws of 2019, is  amended
    32  to read as follows:
    33    9.  To maintain and annually update its website to provide information
    34  with regard to each bus operator or motor  carrier  under  subparagraphs
    35  (ii)  and  (vi) of paragraph a of subdivision two of section one hundred
    36  forty of this [chapter] article requiring department operating authority
    37  that includes the bus operator's or  motor  carrier's  name,  number  of
    38  inspections,  number  of  out of service orders, operator identification
    39  number, location and region of operation  including  place  of  address,
    40  percentile  to which [a] an operator or motor carrier falls with respect
    41  to out of service defects, the number or percentage of  out  of  service
    42  defects  where  pursuant to the commissioner's regulations no inspection
    43  certificate shall be issued until the defect is repaired  and  a  re-in-
    44  spection  is  conducted,  and  the  number of serious physical injury or
    45  fatal crashes involving a for-hire vehicle requiring operating authority
    46  pursuant to this article.
    47    § 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    48  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    49  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    50  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    51  completed on or before such effective date.
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