Bill Text: NY A05382 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that the owner of a hazard vehicle service or of a taxicab, livery, bus, coach, limousine, van or wheelchair accessible van service, who has permitted an employee to operate such a vehicle when such employee has not been issued a valid state driver's license or whose license has been suspended or revoked shall have his business license suspended for thirty days.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to transportation [A05382 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05382-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5382

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 10, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. COOK, PEOPLES-STOKES, PRETLOW, DICKENS, TAYLOR,
          REYES, BUTTENSCHON, SAYEGH, WILLIAMS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
          DAVILA, HYNDMAN, SIMON -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on
          Transportation

        AN  ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to the suspen-
          sion of licenses

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 510 of the vehicle and traffic law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph e to read as follows:
     3    e.  Suspension  of license.  The owner of a hazard vehicle service, as
     4  defined in section one hundred seventeen-a of this chapter, or a service
     5  involving operation for hire of any vehicle as a taxicab, livery or bus,
     6  as such terms are defined in article one of this chapter, coach,  limou-
     7  sine, van or wheelchair accessible van, who has permitted an employee to
     8  operate  such  vehicle  when  such  employee has not been issued a valid
     9  state driver license or whose license  has  been  suspended  or  revoked
    10  pursuant  to this section, shall have his business license suspended for
    11  a period of thirty days by the commissioner or other appropriate licens-
    12  ing authority.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08255-01-3