Int 0786-2000

Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. Subdivision b of section 378 of the New York city charter, as amended by local law no. 87 of the year 1995, is hereby amended as follows: b. Not later than the first day of March, nineteen hundred ninety, the mayor shall designate a single agency as the responsible agency for each type of franchise currently granted by the city. If such an agency intends to continue granting any such type of franchise, the agency shall submit to the council a proposed authorizing resolution for such type of franchise at least two years, or such shorter period as may be approved by the franchise and concession review committee, prior to the earliest expiration date of any existing franchise of that type; provided, however, that such an agency, with the approval of the franchise and concession review committee, may extend to the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred ninety-two the expiration date of any franchise which is scheduled to expire prior to that date, if such an extension is necessary in order to provide the agency with adequate time during which to prepare a proposed authorizing resolution for the type of franchise involved; and provided further, that the department of transportation, with the approval of the franchise and concession review committee, may extend the expiration date of the operating authority of any private bus company to a date not later than the thirty-first day of December, two thousand [two] three; and provided further, that the department of transportation, with the approval of the franchise and concession review committee, may extend the expiration date of any franchise to operate and maintain bus shelters to a date not later than December 31, 2002. Section 2. This local law shall take effect immediately.