Int 0178-1998
Transit Subsidies, Employee
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Transportationintroduced 1998-02-26
Filed — closed without being enacted.
Official record · Legistar
Agenda: 1998-02-26Passed: 2001-12-31
Committee on Transportation — Mass Transportation Agencies and facilities, Department of Transportation and New York City Transit Authority.
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Sponsors (2)
Sheldon S. Leffler(prime)
Helen M. Marshall
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
1998-02-26 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
1998-02-26 · City Council
ActionPrinted Item Laid on Desk
1998-03-17 · Legislative Documents Unit
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2001-12-31 · City Council
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section one. Title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is hereby amended by the addition of a new chapter 7 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 7
TRANSIT SUBSIDIES
�19-701 Transit subsidies. Each employer in the city that offers free or subsidized parking to any employee shall offer a fifteen dollar per month transit subsidy to each of its employees for their use in commuting to and from the employer's worksite.
�19-702 Exemptions. a. Notwithstanding the requirement of section 19-701 hereof, any employer who provides free or subsidized vanpool or carpool parking only, shall be exempt from the provisions of this chapter.
b. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the city of New York or any department, agency, or office thereof.
�19-703. Methods of compliance. Employers required to comply with section 19-701 hereof, may:
a. purchase such transit passes or tickets as may be sold for use on any transit lines or systems which serve employees' homes and places of work and then resell them to their employees at a fifteen dollar per month discount; or
b. offer bus and subway tokens in the amount of fifteen dollars to each of its employees.
�19-704 Violations. Any employer found to have violated the provisions of this chapter shall pay a fine of not less than one hundred dollars per day for each separate violation.
�2. This local law shall take effect one hundred and twenty days after it shall have been enacted into law.
Referred to the Committee on Transportation.
Int. No. 89