Int 0762-2015
Distress signals for passengers in taxicabs, street hail liveries, and for-hire vehicles.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Transportationintroduced 2015-04-28
Filed — closed without being enacted.
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Agenda: 2015-04-28Passed: 2017-12-31
Summary
The bill would require all taxicabs, HAIL vehicles, liveries, black cars, and luxury limousines to have a panic button installed that would allow a passenger to send a distress signal to law enforcement.
Committee on Transportation — Mass Transportation Agencies and facilities, Department of Transportation and New York City Transit Authority.
How it compares
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13 passed · 37 died
This bill: 977 days in committee
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Sponsors (10)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2015-04-28 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2015-04-28 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2017-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (1)
City Council · 2015-04-28 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (2)
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Section 19-508 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision d to read as follows:
d. 1. For purposes of this section, the term "panic button" shall mean a help or distress signaling system as designated by the rules of the commission that connects a passenger in distress with the police department.
2. Every taxicab, HAIL vehicle, and for-hire vehicle shall have a panic button in the rear passenger compartment of such vehicle.
� 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes a law, except that the taxi and limousine commission shall take such measures as are necessary for the implementation of this local law, including the promulgation of rules, prior to such date.
KET 4/13/15 11:14AM
LS 4123/2014